Covid-19 Heroes: How RailTel’s Head-IT ensured 24/7 network availability

“Better to have and not need, than to need and not have.” This is the ideology of CK Prasad, Head-IT & GM, RailTel Corporation who has preempted WFH’s impact on the company’s network and infrastructure requirements much in advance.

Indian Railways-owned RailTel Corporation is one of the largest neutral telecom service providers with an optical fibre network spanning over 50,000 kms. To support the network requirements, RailTel has deployed one of the largest public wifi networks in the country covering 5500+ railway stations, which are managed from a cloud platform. The public WiFi services are being used by more than 2 million users.