BSNL partners Datacraft for cloud services

JAIPUR, INDIA: State-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has signed a deal with IT services provider Datacraft Asia Ltd. for data centre services.

Accordingly, Datacraft will build, operate and manage BSNL's six data centres across the country and together they will sell managed hosted and cloud IT-as-a-service from these facilities under the brand 'onecloud'.

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The six data centres, located in located in Jaipur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Ludhiana, Ghaziabad and Faridabad, are spread over an area of 66,000 square feet, and are inter-connected with point-to-point Ethernet tunnels.