India, Aug. 15 -- Telco outages are making headlines in India quite often, with users reporting disruptions to mobile internet, signal failures, and even landline issues. In a country where digital public infrastructure is the backbone of daily life, an hour of downtime can trigger massive financial losses. With the digital economy contributing an estimated 12-14% to India's GDP and projections of this growing sharply in the coming decade, the impact of repeated outages is significant.

Rapid digitisation and surging data consumption have expanded the attack surface and created levels of network complexity that older tools cannot keep up with. Because telco stability underpins the functioning of government systems, critical sectors, remot...