For years, India’s terrestrial networks were a challenge, with frequent outages causing global enterprises to avoid routing through the country. Lightstorm, a leading cloud and data centre connectivity solution provider, set out to change this narrative by tackling the problem from the ground up.
Traditional telecom models are slow, often requiring months to procure and deploy network services. Lightstorm flipped this with its network-as-a-service (NaaS) model, allowing customers to access an on-demand, ready-to-use network.
“The current customer experience for NaaS in India is quite different. While there are competitors offering networking or connectivity solutions to enterprises, these services are still delivered through a traditional sales model,” Prasanna C, head of product, at Lightstorm, noted.
They redesigned India’s long-distance network, moving 95% of it to robust, utility-grade infrastructure like gas pipelines and high-power transmission networks. This shift dramatically reduced outages due to common issues like cable cuts.
In India, it is currently operational in several cities, such as Pune, …