While still nascent, R&D lab at SRIT has been highly successful in developing some of the most path breaking innovations in our focus domains of Telecom, Healthcare and Enterprise. SRIT follows a unique method of supporting and incubating innovative talent within the company, lead by Dr. Madhu Nambiar himself and supported by scientists, some more than 2 decades of core R&D experience.

Our organizational policy of ‘non-disclosure’ of any numbers/figures mandates that we withhold from publishing our R&D spends. However, if one were to understand the quality and disruptive index of our recently announced innovations (which have been filed for an international patent) the results speak for themselves.

Going forward, SRIT has concise concrete plans to architect and structure a unique practice serving as an innovative bed to engage innovations on a larger scale both laterally & vertically with a higher frequency sustained on a progressive basis.

Innovation:  DynaRate^TM
Innovator:  Phanikanth Kudapa

Dyna-RateTM is a telecom operator’s software system component which will allow for subscribers to decide their internet bandwidth on a real time and dynamic basis. It does this by provisioning (i.e. provide the requested bandwidth on availability) and rating (i.e. calculate the usage for billing purpose, in post-paid scenarios) or balancing (i.e. balance provisioning of bandwidth with the charge available in pre-paid scenarios) subscriber requests through operators service portals on an immediate reactive basis. The key differentiator is the real time provisioning and rating of bandwidth which till today is not possible.

‘On-demand’ services offered by operators today need a subscriber to send a request (either in print or online) for enhancement or reduction in the bandwidth. The request is handled manually by the customer care department which includes sending the request internally to the technical team for them to manually make those needed bandwidth allocation changes. Typical turns around times are between 2-3 days for most operators globally. The system is naturally fraught with human errors and long turn-around times making it redundant to the very concept of ‘on-demand’.

It supports reversal of charge for undelivered services. This happens through intelligence embedded in the system which tracks download from the operators content delivery platform (CDP). With Dyna-RateTM the user will pay ONLY for what he uses and receives. The user can initiate service requests for gaining access to protected services through service selection portal. High service definitions granularity allows services to be classified as Yahoo chat, email, browsing TV channel-1 and so on. The system requires little or no manual intervention for provisioning, operator revenue- sharing, and subscriber control. Dyna-Rate allows for real-time subscriber billing as per the service delivered to subscriber at the time of delivery.

With the bandwidth-on-demand engine, it’s not only the retail subscribers but the corporate customers of the Operators and Service Providers also who would also derive enormous benefits. With this software engine, a service provider will be able to offer flexibility to its corporate customers to define different levels of Internet access to their internal-users (employees). That’s not all. These employees can be given access to their corporate subscription from any place, where the Service Provider has coverage. Only the corporate customer gets billed, not the employee. The Software engine provides central-control mechanism to handle high level of complexities for a national level data operator.