Monday, December 14, 2009

T&M Equipment market in India :Vivid and Baffling!

I am personally very happy, excited and motivated to see a renewed interest in the Professional circles about growth of this business, recession and gloom not withstanding past year or so. This sedate and low profile Industry is getting lot of ink in the Press which is all very well. So far so good, the only caveat is all these market figures and projections are indicating exuberance from nouveau experts trying to hype these things up. Our submission to all T&M professionals and Entrepreneurs remains is please take the hard data into account and then guestimate market size more rationally.

However next obvious question is which data is MORE authentic? I will go to the very basic data from the Government Department of IT and Electronics. Just see the two macro figures of Export of Electronics and Domestic Production standing at $4 Billion and $20 B respectively. Peg these figures to sum total of T&M business done by all major T&M companies Beyond these two blocks Services in Defense, Telecom, Railways, Broadcasting and Semiconductors are other top T&M consumers. I sincerely believe this may be a newer and more rational basis of estimating T&M equipment market in India as we see the pie growing by approx 20pct over next three years.

Will appreciate comments and critique on this.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

T&M can help address Current Spectrum Challenge!

Telecomm Industry in several countries in Asia is facing challenge of Growth (past 50% or more mobile penetration),Customer Churn expected,pressure on ARPU and efficiency of spectrum deployment.T&M services based on measurement and Management can be helpful here.For instance the Monitoring Organisation is having an excellent Real Time Spectrum Monitoring System based on Spectrum Analysers and Processing System around it.

All the major Transmission devices-be it Sattelite,Microwave or UHF are being monitored real time and the data of I/O is networked centrally with the Headquarters.There is parallely a sort of CRM also which recieves inputs through the application at the Monitoring Organisation.

What we need to ensure is couple of things.The interfaces with the transmitting devices need be proper and the data integrity from the various field offices.The process will then be automated and through the autopilot we will be knowing how much Efficiency we are achieving.Secondly we need to have our Goal of Telecomm services established.These two will ensure we use the available Spectrum efficiently and optimise on the need of getting the Spectrum vacated by other users.

T&M services thus can help the Industry resolve a nagging problem of Spectrum Management rationally,automatically and without resorting to unusual human involvement.A good use oF IT and T&M for national Purpose.

Those interested in knowing further on this application may contact the writer.