Case Study: AirJaldi achieves affordable rural broadband connectivity and lower operating costs with Ubuntu

Ubuntu helps bridge the digital divide in rural India

AirJaldi is a rural networking pioneer in India that builds and manages four major wireless networks across Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand to provide broadband to thousands of institutions and homes. Operating in difficult terrain with sparse populations and very limited budgets, the company needed cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-manage technology to minimize deployment and operations costs without compromising service quality.

AirJaldi powers its Network Operations Centre and workstations with free, open-source Ubuntu — running distributed servers (now eight in production) and spinning up temporary servers for large projects — and trains staff and students on the platform. The result is affordable, stable broadband for rural communities, simpler onboarding for staff with limited IT experience, extended life for older machines, and better IT services for customers, enabling AirJaldi to close much of the digital divide in the regions it serves.

Airjaldi’s

Michael Ginguld

Chief Executive Officer