|
"Netsol offer's IT Managed Services and Remote infrastructure management to over 75 customers in India and abroad"
--- Sudhir D Sarma,
Managing Director,
Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
|
|
"Optical Edge Devices to be the cornerstone of growth of the Optical Networking Market"
--- Dr. Kumar N. Sivarajan,
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Tejas Networks India Ltd.
|
|
"WCDMA is the natural evolution of world dominating mobile system GSM"
--- Mickey Nasiri,
VP,
UbiNetics.
|
|
"Netork security is threatened by carriers of worms, adware, spIM and spyware"
--- Sridhar Vutukuri,,
Vice President and Country Head, India,
FaceTime Communications, Inc.
|
|
"Worldwide the DSL subscriptions have been on a high growth phase"
--- Anupam Singh,
Vice President,
Conexant Systems.
|
|
"The next generation technologies and open operator and/or OEM application platforms will allow for the 3G revolution to flourish"
Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) is an approved 3G standard that uses 5 MHz channels for both voice and data, offering excellent voice capacity and a peak data rate of 384 kbps.
--- Shekar,
GM,
Prairiecomm Technologies (I) Pvt Ltd
|
|
"ILM technologies enable organizations to dynamically and seamlessly manage corporate information according to its changing value over time"
Storage Area Networks (SANs) have the ability to save company money, hasten backups and help consolidate the data center.
--- N Ramachandran,
GM- Storage Industry Group,
Mindtree Consulting Pvt Ltd.
|
|
“Having an optimal Design Flow is a key requirement of a design company or group”
The future for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) firms has seldom looked so bright.
--- Nachiket Urdhwareshe,
CEO,
SoftJin Infotech Private Limited |
|
“One has to accept that the world of work is changing”
The furore over outsourcing has gathered steam over the last couple of months.
--- Mark Hillary,
Technology manager and
Independent outsourcing consultant |
|
“Our technology companies need to focus on marketing”
Networking bridges those distances. Though I entered with no expectation, maybe that is why it has been a pleasant experience.
--- Mahesh Murthy, Entrepreneur
Passionfund |
| |
|
"Internationally, India is going to be dead in the water unless it begins to show innovation"
Indian brains need to be applied to the conception and development of innovative products and services, and quickly.
--- Atul Chitnis, Partner
Exocore Consulting, Bangalore |
| |
|
"Our
intent is to address the security market through whatever it
takes"
The market for security-related hardware,
software, and services is expected to swell to $45 billion in
revenue by 2006, according to IDC..
--- Mr. Rakesh Singh, GM
NetScaler, Asia
Operations |
| |
|
Start-up Watch
"Young
company with a mature mind"
Three years earlier, like-minded industry
veterans from leading technology companies came together to fill gap
found in IT services space, a good blend of consulting capabilities
and process oriented execution under one leadership.
--- Mr. Vinod P. Deshmukh
Sr. Vice President and
CTO, MindTree Consulting |
| |
|
"In
today's market, pure product play is very risky"
Telesoft is a product start-up with a high
passion quotient. In 1998-99 the company built a softswitch which
pipped giants such as Fujitsu, Nortel and NTT DoCoMo in the
marketplace.
--- Mr. Vinod Chandran
Chief Operating Office,
Telesoft |
| |
|
"Few
Indian companies offer total ownership in chip design"
2002 has been the worst ever year for the global
chip sector hammered by the slowdown and lowered IT spends.
Undeterred by the shrunken market and fast-disappearing prospects,
Avedis Microsystem made its debut in May, making it one of the few
hot technology start-ups of this year.
--- Mr. Sunil Kalarickal
CEO Avedis Microsystems
|
| |
|
"There
is a misconception that BPO means easy money"
Indian BPO players are on a high. Recent joint
projections by Nasscom- McKinsey indicate that the IT-Enabled
Services segment will generate Rs. 81,000 crore (US$ 17 billion) in
revenue and employ over 1 million people by 2008.
--- Rajdeep S. Puri
Vice President
Operations
First Ring |
| |
|
"Software
exports will touch Rs. 13,000 crore"
For the IT industry struggling to survive, the
last one year has been irredeemably bleak with growth rates crashing
from quarter to quarter.
--- Mr. B. V. Naidu
Director, STPI |
| |
|
Growth
and Profitability in tough times
In 2000, caught in the worst ever business
crisis, Firestone was forced to recall 6.5 million failure-prone
tires. Later research proved that the Firestone problem was as early
as August 1998 and the company could have prevented the damage had
it known that people were already beginning to talk about its tires
on the Net.
---Dr K. R. V. Subramanian
CEO,
AnswerPal |
| |
|
"Bluetooth
is not a wishful market"
By 2005, analysts such as Vision Gain predict
that all new multimedia mobile devices will be manufactured with
Bluetooth as the standard. A rip-off from science fantasy fiction,
Bluetooth promises communication between a gamuts of devices.
--- Mr. Basker Subramanian,
CTO and founder
Impulsesoft |
| |
|
"Musharraf
is serious about disciplining jehadis"
High -level visits from US and UK to the
sub-continent followed by President Musharraf's promise to
permanently clamp down on terrorists have brought India and Pakistan
back from the brink.
--- Dr Sreedhar,
Institute of Defence
Studies |
| |
|
"We
need to take the lid off the entire bureaucracy called
education"
India's garugantan education machinery churns out
scores of graduates every year. Yet apart from a few institutions
such as IITs and IIMs, Central universities and now the III-Ts,
India's educational sector is chronically sick.
--- Prof Sadagopan,
Director III-T, |
| |
|
"HR
is drawn to outsourcing for reasons other than cost
reduction"
Responding to the increasing business imperatives
of the new economy, the traditional HR department has been subject
to a drastic image makeover - from a cost-consuming, administrative
backstage functionary to a strategic business partner contributing
directly and significantly to the company's bottomline.
--- Mr. Leo Fernandez,
India Life Hewitt
|
| |
|
"We
wanted to make sure we did not miss being in Asia's Silicon
Valley"
The latest US company on the block to shift base
to India to leverage its cost effectiveness is New-Jersey-based
content and IP rating billing and settlement solutions provider,
Apogee Networks.
--- Mr. Balaji Pitchaikani
Apogee Networks
|
| |
|
"The
industry's problem is that we are trying to copy the Americans too
much"
Formed in 1986, Sonata Software is India's oldest
medium enterprise. At a corporate level, the SEICMM Level 5
certified company forms a fairly decent story to tell.
--- Mr. Srikar Reddy
Sonata Software |
| |
|
"There
is no such thing as an ethical hacker"
In 2001, computer users faced a seemingly endless
onslaught of viruses. Code Red Nimda and Scrim pinpointed the
vulnerability of networks and our helplessness to tackle them.
--- Mr. Subramanya Rao
Proland Software
|
| |
|
"Even
a slowdown can be advantageous if you want to take advantage of
it"
Challenge is a way of life for Ishoni Networks.
Two-and-a- half-years back, Ishoni's India office decided that it
was not going to be a mere service company and play second fiddle to
its US counterpart.
--- Dr Vivek Mansingh
Ishoni Networks |
| |
|
"HR
cannot afford to get divorced from business realities"
In a span of less than five years, Aztec Software
from being a little known start-up became the darling of the markets
when it went public last year. A fortnight back, rocked by
uncertainties in the market, the company was forced to lay off 35
employees. True to the Aztec work ethic, the company did not mask
the layoffs behind a flurry of excuses as most other Indian
companies have.
--- T. K. Anand
Aztec Software |
| |
|
"Things
are going from bad to worse"
Last year flush with VC funds, internet companies
in a battle for visibility blared out their existence from gigantic
billboards dotting the urban landscape. Recruitment ads shed their
stodgy image and became brand statements in their own right.
--- Mr. Vikram Satyanath
Enterprise Nexus
|
| |
|
"Failure
is not a dirty word in VC lexicon"
Nasdaq's downward spiral has triggered a
bloodbath in the tech sector. As start-up corpses begin to litter
the tech field, VCs are surprisingly stoic.
--- Mr. Vijay Angadi
ICF ventures |
| |
|
"New
paradigm of work"
"I feel every company in the future will have
distributed people. Why have a work force at all," he questions
passionately. No, this is not the stuff dreams are made of or what
we all though we would do when we were 14-year olds before we got
trapped in a cubicled existence."
--- Vinai Kashyap
Kelsar Technologies |
| |
|
"Being
laid-off is akin to standing at the edge of a precipice with nothing
in front of you"
Less than a year ago, HR managers of India
Software Inc. raged reckless battles to lure techies to their fold.
Indian techies never had it better - inflated salaries, stock
options, signing bonuses, paid vacations and relocation expenses
were deemed an integral part of the pay package.
--- Dr. Gideon Arulmani
The Promise Foundation
|
| |
|
Short Take
"HIPAA
is a big opportunity but not for every player in the market"
Healthcare informatics space in the US has been
relatively recession proof and is expected to touch $60 billion by
2004.
--- --- Dr.Saji Salam,
Consulting Manager, HL7
Inc |
| |
|
"Hyderabad
has an international face but reputational build-up will take
time"
In the last five years, Hyderabad has transformed
itself from the once somnolent city of Nawabs to an aggressive
player in the technology industry.
--- --- Colonel M. Vijay Kumar, Director, STPI,
Hyderabad |
| |
|
"The
next 18 months will separate the good from the 'once-upon-a-time'
companies"
Established in 1997, Mistral Software has emerged
as a leading provider of end-to-end services for embedded product
design and development.
--- Anees Ahmed
President, Mistral
Software |
| |
|
Company Watch
"Gunning
for 50 per cent growth"
Founded in 1997 CoreObjects is a product
development engine for robust, scalable software. The mid-sized
company has carefully crafted a differentiated strategy from its
contemporaries as a product-centric rather than a project-centric
company.
--- Sanjay Bhaduri
President
CoreObjects |
| |
|
"The
overwhelming evidence is in favour of good HR practices in
IT"
Since Nasdaq first hit the skids last April and
fortunes of IT companies, riding on the dotcom boom, nosedived, the
IT industry that had earlier waged wars too woo and retain talent
responded by slashing salaries, issuing pink slips, withdrawing
offers to freshers and freezing recruitment.
--- Prof. J. Phillip
Director XIME |
| |
|
Company Watch
"We
are optimistic about the next three quarters"
LG Soft India (LGSI) is a part of the US $80
billion LG Group. Despite the LG brand name, the company has had a
chequered history, first hit by the Korean crisis then by the US
downturn.
--- Mr. Shubho Kundu
General Manager
LG Soft
India |
| |
|
Invest Kerala
Hip,
Hep & Happening Kerala
The latest State to jump on the Indian IT
badwagon is Kerala, God's own country. Shrugging its somnolent
backwater, non-happening imageand armed with a brand new IT policy
and a more than supportive government, the State is pulling all
plugs to attract IT investments in the State.
--- Mr. Rajiv Vasudevan
CEO,
Technopark |
| |
|
"Future
of animation in India is brilliant"
"Kinetic Art is the first new category of art
since prehistory. It took until this century to discover the art
that moves. Had we taken the aesthetic qualities of sound as much
for granted as we have taken those of motion, we would not now have
music.
--- Bill Dennis
CEO, Toonz Animation
India |
| |
|
Start-up Track
"Organisations
need to understand what is happening tomorrow"
In an intensely competitive globalised economy,
strategy-generation and accurate decision- making have become
increasingly complex and an imperative for businesses to
succeed.
--- Subhash Gupta
Founder and Chief
Scientist
Zelante Solutions |
| |
|
"It's
a good time for VCs to invest, as no one else is"
VCs may still be hurting from their matri-money
with upstarts in the 'got an idea get a million era' but are not
calling it quits.
--- Sumir Chadha
Founder IVCA |
| |
|
Company
Watch
"Domestic markets hold poor lure for VCs"
In a country where PC penetration is as low as
five per 1,000 people, Inabling Technologies stormed the domestic
technology market in August 2001 with its indigenously produced
revolutionary e-mail device for the rural market, the I-station.
--- Mr. Narsimha Prabhu
Chief Technology
Officer
Inabling Technologies |
| |
|
"If
Hyderabad has 10 jobs, Bangalore has close to 100"
In the late Nineties, a 400-year old city closely
identified with its laid-back Nawabi culture discovered the power of
Silicon and made a pitch to transform itself from Hyderabad to
Cyberabad.
--- Mr A. K. Menon
CEO Options |
| |
|
"There
is nothing demeaning about working in a call centre"
The IT-enabled services opportunity in India is
expected to cross $20 billion by 2008, according to a recent Nasscom
report. The sunrise sector with a humongous potential to offer
employment to collegiates has also become the victim of many
misconceptions.
--- Mr. G. V. Giridhar
General Manager -
HR
ITES |
| |
|
"India
is not merely a low cost production centre"
Realising India's immense potential in IT and BT,
UK is trying hard to lure Indian investors by pitching itself as an
attractive and preferred hi-tech investment gateway to Europe.
--- Mr. Stephen Metti
Head of India and
Australia
Team of Invest UK. |
| |
|
HR
Focus
"It's the little things that make a vital
difference at Subex"
In February 2002, Subex Systems bagged the award
for Organisation with Innovative HR practices at the All India HRD
Congress.
--- Mr J. M. Prasad,
Subex Systems, |
| |
|
"Our intent is to address the security market through whatever it takes"
The market for security-related hardware, software, and services is expected to swell to $45 billion in revenue by 2006, according to IDC..
--- Mr. Rakesh Singh, GM
NetScaler, Asia Operations |
| |
|
Start-up Watch
"Young company with a mature mind"
Three years earlier, like-minded industry veterans from leading technology companies came together to fill gap found in IT services space, a good blend of consulting capabilities and process oriented execution under one leadership.
--- Mr. Vinod P. Deshmukh
Sr. Vice President and CTO, MindTree Consulting |
| |
|
"In today's market, pure product play is very risky"
Telesoft is a product start-up with a high passion quotient. In 1998-99 the company built a softswitch which pipped giants such as Fujitsu, Nortel and NTT DoCoMo in the marketplace.
--- Mr. Vinod Chandran
Chief Operating Office, Telesoft |
| |
|
"Few Indian companies offer total ownership in chip design"
2002 has been the worst ever year for the global chip sector hammered by the slowdown and lowered IT spends. Undeterred by the shrunken market and fast-disappearing prospects, Avedis Microsystem made its debut in May, making it one of the few hot technology start-ups of this year.
--- Mr. Sunil Kalarickal
CEO Avedis Microsystems
|
| |
|
"There is a misconception that BPO means easy money"
Indian BPO players are on a high. Recent joint projections by Nasscom- McKinsey indicate that the IT-Enabled Services segment will generate Rs. 81,000 crore (US$ 17 billion) in revenue and employ over 1 million people by 2008.
--- Rajdeep S. Puri
Vice President
Operations First Ring
|
| |
|
"Software exports will touch Rs. 13,000 crore"
For the IT industry struggling to survive, the last one year has been irredeemably bleak with growth rates crashing from quarter to quarter.
--- Mr. B. V. Naidu
Director, STPI |
| |
|
Growth and Profitability in tough times
In 2000, caught in the worst ever business crisis, Firestone was forced to recall 6.5 million failure-prone tires. Later research proved that the Firestone problem was as early as August 1998 and the company could have prevented the damage had it known that people were already beginning to talk about its tires on the Net.
---Dr K. R. V. Subramanian
CEO, AnswerPal |
| |
|
"Bluetooth is not a wishful market"
By 2005, analysts such as Vision Gain predict that all new multimedia mobile devices will be manufactured with Bluetooth as the standard. A rip-off from science fantasy fiction, Bluetooth promises communication between a gamuts of devices.
--- Mr. Basker Subramanian,
CTO and founder Impulsesoft |
| |
|
"Musharraf is serious about disciplining jehadis"
High -level visits from US and UK to the sub-continent followed by President Musharraf's promise to permanently clamp down on terrorists have brought India and Pakistan back from the brink.
--- Dr Sreedhar,
Institute of Defence Studies |
| |
|
"We need to take the lid off the entire bureaucracy called education"
India's garugantan education machinery churns out scores of graduates every year. Yet apart from a few institutions such as IITs and IIMs, Central universities and now the III-Ts, India's educational sector is chronically sick.
--- Prof Sadagopan,
Director III-T,
|
| |
|
"HR is drawn to outsourcing for reasons other than cost reduction"
Responding to the increasing business imperatives of the new economy, the traditional HR department has been subject to a drastic image makeover - from a cost-consuming, administrative backstage functionary to a strategic business partner contributing directly and significantly to the company's bottomline.
--- Mr. Leo Fernandez,
India Life Hewitt
|
| |
|
"We wanted to make sure we did not miss being in Asia's Silicon Valley"
The latest US company on the block to shift base to India to leverage its cost effectiveness is New-Jersey-based content and IP rating billing and settlement solutions provider, Apogee Networks.
--- Mr. Balaji Pitchaikani
Apogee Networks
|
| |
|
"The industry's problem is that we are trying to copy the Americans too much"
Formed in 1986, Sonata Software is India's oldest medium enterprise. At a corporate level, the SEICMM Level 5 certified company forms a fairly decent story to tell.
--- Mr. Srikar Reddy
Sonata Software
|
| |
|
"There is no such thing as an ethical hacker"
In 2001, computer users faced a seemingly endless onslaught of viruses. Code Red Nimda and Scrim pinpointed the vulnerability of networks and our helplessness to tackle them.
--- Mr. Subramanya Rao
Proland Software
|
| |
|
"Even a slowdown can be advantageous if you want to take advantage of it"
Challenge is a way of life for Ishoni Networks. Two-and-a- half-years back, Ishoni's India office decided that it was not going to be a mere service company and play second fiddle to its US counterpart.
--- Dr Vivek Mansingh
Ishoni Networks
|
| |
|
"HR cannot afford to get divorced from business realities"
In a span of less than five years, Aztec Software from being a little known start-up became the darling of the markets when it went public last year. A fortnight back, rocked by uncertainties in the market, the company was forced to lay off 35 employees. True to the Aztec work ethic, the company did not mask the layoffs behind a flurry of excuses as most other Indian companies have.
--- T. K. Anand
Aztec Software
|
| |
|
"Things are going from bad to worse"
Last year flush with VC funds, internet companies in a battle for visibility blared out their existence from gigantic billboards dotting the urban landscape. Recruitment ads shed their stodgy image and became brand statements in their own right.
--- Mr. Vikram Satyanath
Enterprise Nexus
|
| |
|
"Failure is not a dirty word in VC lexicon"
Nasdaq's downward spiral has triggered a bloodbath in the tech sector. As start-up corpses begin to litter the tech field, VCs are surprisingly stoic.
--- Mr. Vijay Angadi
ICF ventures
|
| |
|
"New paradigm of work"
"I feel every company in the future will have distributed people. Why have a work force at all," he questions passionately. No, this is not the stuff dreams are made of or what we all though we would do when we were 14-year olds before we got trapped in a cubicled existence."
--- Vinai Kashyap
Kelsar Technologies
|
| |
|
"Being laid-off is akin to standing at the edge of a precipice with nothing in front of you"
Less than a year ago, HR managers of India Software Inc. raged reckless battles to lure techies to their fold. Indian techies never had it better - inflated salaries, stock options, signing bonuses, paid vacations and relocation expenses were deemed an integral part of the pay package.
--- Dr. Gideon Arulmani
The Promise Foundation
|
| |
|
Short Take
"HIPAA is a big opportunity but not for every player in the market"
Healthcare informatics space in the US has been relatively recession proof and is expected to touch $60 billion by 2004.
--- --- Dr.Saji Salam,
Consulting Manager, HL7 Inc |
| |
|
"Hyderabad has an international face but reputational build-up will take time"
In the last five years, Hyderabad has transformed itself from the once somnolent city of Nawabs to an aggressive player in the technology industry.
--- --- Colonel M. Vijay Kumar, Director, STPI, Hyderabad |
| |
|
"The next 18 months will separate the good from the 'once-upon-a-time' companies"
Established in 1997, Mistral Software has emerged as a leading provider of end-to-end services for embedded product design and development.
--- Anees Ahmed
President, Mistral Software |
| |
|
Company Watch
"Gunning for 50 per cent growth"
Founded in 1997 CoreObjects is a product development engine for robust, scalable software. The mid-sized company has carefully crafted a differentiated strategy from its contemporaries as a product-centric rather than a project-centric company.
--- Sanjay Bhaduri
President CoreObjects |
| |
|
"The overwhelming evidence is in favour of good HR practices in IT"
Since Nasdaq first hit the skids last April and fortunes of IT companies, riding on the dotcom boom, nosedived, the IT industry that had earlier waged wars too woo and retain talent responded by slashing salaries, issuing pink slips, withdrawing offers to freshers and freezing recruitment.
--- Prof. J. Phillip
Director XIME |
| |
|
Company Watch
"We are optimistic about the next three quarters"
LG Soft India (LGSI) is a part of the US $80 billion LG Group. Despite the LG brand name, the company has had a chequered history, first hit by the Korean crisis then by the US downturn.
--- Mr. Shubho Kundu
General Manager
LG Soft India |
| |
|
Invest Kerala
Hip, Hep & Happening Kerala
The latest State to jump on the Indian IT badwagon is Kerala, God's own country. Shrugging its somnolent backwater, non-happening imageand armed with a brand new IT policy and a more than supportive government, the State is pulling all plugs to attract IT investments in the State.
--- Mr. Rajiv Vasudevan
CEO, Technopark |
| |
|
"Future of animation in India is brilliant"
"Kinetic Art is the first new category of art since prehistory. It took until this century to discover the art that moves. Had we taken the aesthetic qualities of sound as much for granted as we have taken those of motion, we would not now have music.
--- Bill Dennis
CEO, Toonz Animation India |
| |
|
Start-up Track
"Organisations need to understand what is happening tomorrow"
In an intensely competitive globalised economy, strategy-generation and accurate decision- making have become increasingly complex and an imperative for businesses to succeed.
--- Subhash Gupta
Founder and Chief Scientist
Zelante Solutions
|
| |
|
"It's a good time for VCs to invest, as no one else is"
VCs may still be hurting from their matri-money with upstarts in the 'got an idea get a million era' but are not calling it quits.
--- Sumir Chadha
Founder IVCA
|
| |
|
Company Watch
"Domestic markets hold poor lure for VCs"
In a country where PC penetration is as low as five per 1,000 people, Inabling Technologies stormed the domestic technology market in August 2001 with its indigenously produced revolutionary e-mail device for the rural market, the I-station.
--- Mr. Narsimha Prabhu
Chief Technology Officer
Inabling Technologies
|
| |
|
"If Hyderabad has 10 jobs, Bangalore has close to 100"
In the late Nineties, a 400-year old city closely identified with its laid-back Nawabi culture discovered the power of Silicon and made a pitch to transform itself from Hyderabad to Cyberabad.
--- Mr A. K. Menon
CEO Options |
| |
|
"There is nothing demeaning about working in a call centre"
The IT-enabled services opportunity in India is expected to cross $20 billion by 2008, according to a recent Nasscom report. The sunrise sector with a humongous potential to offer employment to collegiates has also become the victim of many misconceptions.
--- Mr. G. V. Giridhar
General Manager - HR
ITES
|
| |
|
"India is not merely a low cost production centre"
Realising India's immense potential in IT and BT, UK is trying hard to lure Indian investors by pitching itself as an attractive and preferred hi-tech investment gateway to Europe.
--- Mr. Stephen Metti
Head of India and Australia
Team of Invest UK.
|
| |
|
HR Focus
"It's the little things that make a vital difference at Subex"
In February 2002, Subex Systems bagged the award for Organisation with Innovative HR practices at the All India HRD Congress.
--- Mr J. M. Prasad,
Subex Systems,
|
| |
|
"Netsol offer's IT Managed Services and Remote infrastructure management to over 75 customers in India and abroad"
 |
Sudhir D Sarma,
Managing Director,
Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd |
Netsol's vision is to be a world leader in providing leading-edge ICT infrastructure solutions, services and software.
It offers a whole range of IT Infrastructure solutions, services & software for customer's IT infrastructure.
In this month’s interview Sudhir D Sarma, Managing Director of Network Solutions Pvt. Ltd, shares his views on ICT Infrastructure , SNAPPiMON
and the future plans of the company.
 You have provided the networking for IT.Com. Can you share with us what technology did you use and your experience being a part of such a mega event?
a. The Network for IT.com included the following:
- Distributed cabling architecture based on CAT 5e standards. 5 Kms of copper cabling.
- Multimode fiber as backbone for 11 pavilions. 550 meters of fiber cabling.
- About 30 Ethernet switches to provide connectivity for the participants.
b. With Netsol's experience in implementing and managing large networks across various verticals did not pose technological challenges, however setting up a network for an event like IT.com was an experience of its own. We implemented a high performance and high reliability network, which very successfully met the requirements of the participants without any failures or issues.
Your company is leading provider of Information Communication Technology service (ICT). What are the latest technological developments in that sector?
Network Solutions is a leading solution provider of ICT Infrastructure used in the enterprise segments such as Banking, ITES & Software Development. The key technological developments in this sector include:
- Growth of deployment of IP based Converged networks across enterprises. The technology has matured to allow large-scale deployments across enterprises in India.
- With growth in the IP based converged networks, Application based IP networks are coming to the forefront to unleash the power and capabilities of converged networks.
- Deployment of wireless networks.
One of your focus areas is Telephony and Telephony products. With the Govt increasing FDI stake to 74% in Telecom sector, what technological changes do you foresee in the sector?
Our focus area of Telephony and Telephony products are aimed at the Enterprise market.
The FDI regulations are applicable to the Telecom sector and specifically Telecom Service providers like Reliance and Bharti. We do not see any technological changes, but we see a lot more investments in technology.
What services do you offer in the area of Network Architecture and Design?
Keeping current with new technology is a task in itself. Organizations are facing enormous challenges in creating and evolving an IT framework that would help leverage IT to serve customers better. When and where to invest in technology, staffing issues, security are just a drop in the ocean of challenges. Experience is crucial to understand these challenges that an organization is facing.
Our consulting services cover a spectrum of IT infrastructure related services from systems audit to call centers. We have demonstrated capability to provide effective solutions to key customers in many verticals. With over a decade of experience, Netsol is armed with the necessary expertise and know-how to capture your business's unique needs and help adapting your organization to the rapid technological advancements.
The Netsol offerings include:
- Network (LAN / WAN) consulting services
- Contact Center consulting services
- Network (LAN / WAN) audit services
- Contact Center audit services
- IP Telephony services audit
What are the latest trends in Wireless Networking?
Wireless networking is growing phenomenally within homes and businesses, some of the trends;
- Peripheral devices - wireless enabled
- Higher bandwidth and higher throughput. WiMAX is one solution based on IEEE 802.16 and supports bandwidths upto 75 Mb/sec, upto 10 miles range of wireless
- Robust quality of service (IEEE 802.11e)
- High levels of security on wireless (IEEE 802.11i) includes WPA (Wi-Fi Protected access)
- Wireless management - rogue (client & Access Points) access detection
- Automated site survey and location of the access point
What is SNAPPiMON? What advantages does it have?
Netsol built SNAPPiMON leveraging its expertise and experience in the IT infrastructure management space.
SNAPPiMON - is an ITIL-Centric, integrated IT Infrastructure Monitoring solution that simplifies monitoring of IT infrastructure in an enterprise. SNAPPIMON provides availability and performance monitoring of systems, network, applications and databases in an integrated view along with event correlation, service level management, alarms, reporting and dashboards. It helps you minimize impact due to infrastructure outages by acting on real time data and by removing delays in diagnosis, analysis and response. Its easy-to-use interface and sophisticated reporting helps you to analyse your IT infrastructure at great length.
SNAPPiMON is now being sold in the enterprise segment in India, US and Europe.
You are a major player in the ITES and BPO Sector. What does future hold for the BPO sector (specific to ICT infrastructure for BPO)?
The BPO sector is in a consolidation phase with the larger players expanding in capacity & services delivery mechanism on the one hand. On the other the specific focus on the issues like process engineering & Security being handled with expert assistance from mature markets.
The trend of the captive centres holding majority seats continues. The future of this segment is bright at-least for the next 5-6 years where the outsourcing will continue with a CAGR of >20% per anum. However in the later part of this decade the consolidation of the outsourced with captive process will come into focus.
What is the concept of Global Management Centre about?
Business Drivers
Given the pressures of globalisation, intense competition and stagnant domestic markets - global companies are looking at innovative ways to compete and grow in the market place. Access to cost effective, high quality capability continues to be a top priority.
One of the priorities is smarter management of enterprise costs, and strategic outsourcing is seen as one of the solutions, wherein companies are evaluating strategic outsourcing as a means to achieve overall business goals. Business goals including
- Reduce costs
- Focus on core competencies
- Enhance agility
- Reduce risk
What is IMS?
Infrastructure management services (IMS) refers to the day-to-day management of the IT infrastructure needs of an organisation. These include: server and storage management needs; network operations, including security requirements; desktop management (configuration, upgrades, maintenance); and a 24x7 helpdesk to help in all these activities.
Remote infrastructure management (RIM)
Another key trend that has helped the outsourcing of infrastructure management is the ability to do much of this work remotely. The single biggest factor helping this has been advances in telecommunications and the Internet; many of the processes can now be automated over the web, something that was not possible before. The new concept helps an organization located anywhere in the world to discreetly tap into some part of individual business and help monitor and manage these remotely. Various monitoring and remote management tools help vendors monitor and manage much of the needs from a remote location. Estimates from IDC, Gartner and others indicated that as much as 80-90% of the infrastructure management can be done remotely.
Global Management Center (GMC)
Netsol GMC is an operations centre offering Remote infrastructure management services. The Netsol GMC is a world-class operation centre and offers the following services:
- Remote Technical Helpdesk services
- Network Monitoring and management services
- Security monitoring and operations
- System and Application monitoring and management services
Netsol has been awarded with "Best IT Infrastructure Maintenance provider of the year" by The International Facility Management Association. Please brief about that.
IFMA is the largest and most widely recognized professional association for facility management, supporting approximately 17,300 members. The Association's members are represented in 126 chapters, 16 councils and one Special Interest Group (SIG), in 54 countries worldwide. Globally, IFMA certifies facility managers, conducts research, provides educational programs, recognizes facility management degree and certificate programs and produces World Workplace, the largest facility management-related conference and exposition.
The IFMA India Chapter conducted a 'Recognition of Excellence' survey once again for the year 2004 across over 1000 Organisations which ranked different categories of facilities providers across the country and Ernst & Young, as an independent agency administered the survey and compiled the results.
Each customer ranked different categories of facilities providers across the country and Ernst & Young, as an independent agency administered the survey and compiled the results.
Netsol was rated as the "Best IT infrastructure and Maintenance Provider of the Year" for the second year in succession.
Netsol is one of India's leading IT Infrastructure solutions, services and software provider. Since its inception in 1993, Netsol has built an enviable reputation of having designed, deployed and managing many of India's mission-critical networks.
Netsol offer's IT Managed Services and Remote infrastructure management to over 75 customers in India and abroad. We have over 600+ professional dedicated to delivering "Service Excellence"
Headquartered in Bangalore, Netsol has over 1000 professionals and has presence in over 30 locations across India. With the largest team of certified professionals, Netsol has the requisite expertise and experience to craft unique solutions that would leverage IT to produce business results.
What are the future plans of Netsol?
Netsol's future plans centre around IT Infrastructure Solutions, Software products and the Remote Infrastructure management (RIM) business.
The next big wave for the Indian IT market is IT Infrastructure outsourcing. It can be even bigger than the BPO and the software wave. Recent reports from Deutsche Bank put the entire market size at about USD 8 billion.
Netsol has set-up it's Global Management Center (GMC) in Bangalore to offer RIM services. We have already bagged a few marquee customers in India and abroad. To cater to the rapid growth we are setting up another GMC in Chennai, which will also be a DR site to the primary site in Bangalore.
Complementing the RIM services will be the cutting edge products from Netsol including SNAPPiMON, coDesk, IPMeter etc.
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