The Late Dhirubhai Ambani dream of a digital India — an India where the common man would have access to affordable means of information and communication. Dhirubhai, who single-handedly built India’s largest private sector company virtually from scratch, had stated as early as 1999: “Make the tools of information and communication available to people at an affordable cost. They will overcome the handicaps of illiteracy and lack of mobility.”

It was with this belief in mind that Reliance Communications (formerly Reliance Infocomm) started laying 60,000 route kilometres of a pan-India fibre optic backbone. This backbone was commissioned on 28 December 2002, the auspicious occasion of Dhirubhai’s 70th birthday, though sadly after his unexpected demise on 6 July 2002.

Reliance Communications has a reliable, high-capacity, integrated (both wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital network. It is capable of delivering a range of services spanning the entire infocomm (information and communication) value chain, including infrastructure and services — for enterprises as well as individuals, applications, and consulting.

Today, Reliance Communications is revolutionising the way India communicates and networks, truly bringing about a new way of life.

Reliance broadband Internet service is based on dual ring fiber architecture with FTTB (Fiber-to-the-building), giving exceptional uptime and access speeds. Combined with a wholly-owned 10 Gbps data backbone that is monitored 24×7x365, this gives the customer an extremely reliable service, backed by industry leading service level agreements (SLAs).

Their service is highly scalable, allowing bandwidths from 64 kbps to 100 Mbps without making any change in the last mile copper. For enterprise customers, we also offer the option of Metro Ethernet as the last mile port, substantially decreasing the capex cost of high bandwidth circuits.

Reliance is India's most integrated Telecom service provider. It owns the entire end-to-end architecture, including access systems, the national fiber-optic backbone, the international cable systems, Internet gateways, and nearly 40,000 sq ft of data centre space.