New Delhi, 23rd February 2018: Sterlite Technologies announced as winner in “Innovative Telecom Product/Solution” category for their innovation “Sterlite Tech Smarter Plug & Play Solution” at Aegis Graham Bell Award 2017, honoring the best innovation in the ICT domain in India. Sterlite Technologies has been applauded as winner at the 8th edition of Aegis Graham Bell Award at NDMC Convention Center, New Delhi.

Aegis Graham Bell has been promoting innovations and entrepreneurship in Telecom, Data Science, Smart City Solution, Cyber Security, Digital India, Cloud and Mobility. AGBA has been rewarding those who made outstanding contribution in these fields since 7 years with a vision to foster and stimulate innovators, for India to become a nucleus of innovations.

Ankit Agarwal, Director, Sterlite Tech, said, “We are delighted to win the Aegis Graham Bell Award for innovation third time in a row. This time we have won for smarter Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) solution. The award recognises our consistent efforts in bringing fibre closer and faster to the point of actual consumption, be it homes, offices, hospitals and other critical institutions.”

Adding on the award winning technology, he affirms, “Our innovative Smarter Fibre-to-the-Home Plug & Play Passive technology rides high-bandwidth, futuristic applications including e-health, e-education, UHD TV, virtual reality, smart homes and security. It enables telecom operators to build fastest and reliable last-mile connectivity, as the ready-to-install kit helps in completing home-pass readiness within hours, that too at the lowest total cost of ownership.”

About Sterlite Technologies

Sterlite Technologies Ltd is a global technology company. The Company is engaged in designing, building and managing smarter digital networks. Its digital networks focused business products, services and software includes optical communication products, network and system integration services and operations support systems (OSS)/business support system (BSS) software solutions. It operates in six continents and more than 100 countries. The Company operates through manufacturing facilities in India, China and Brazil. Its portfolio consists of approximately 155 patents. The Company’s projects include intrusion-proof smarter data network for the Armed Forces, rural broadband for BharatNet, Smart Cities’ development, and establishing high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks.

About us

The Aegis Graham Bell Award is one of the largest innovation award for the ICT domain in India. The Aegis School of Business, Data Science, Cyber Security and Telecommunication has established the Aegis Graham Bell Award as a tribute to the father of the telephony, Alexander Graham Bell. This Award is intended to promote innovation, entrepreneurship in the field of Telecom, Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud, and Security to provide recognition for outstanding contributions by the innovators. The Award is organized with support of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), Convergence India and Deloitte as a knowledge partner.

For more information, please contact:
Shweta Chavan | Corporate Communication | Aegis Graham Bell Awards | 8433969263 | shweta@bellaward.com