Chennai turns into hub for wireless networking
Chennai, Apr 21:
Tata Elxsi, the product design arm of $14.25 billion Tata group, has set-up a design and development centre in Chennai to focus on wireless communications and networking and undertaking research on convergence technologies. The new office space of 10,000 sq ft in the heart of the city was inaugurated yesterday by the State IT secretary Vivek Harinarain.
In networking, the company offers end-to-end design and development services for its customers, enters into partnerships with manufacturers and product vendors for joint development of new products, thereby helps in the saving of R&D costs of their clients. 'Wireless networking is an emerging sector of the communications technology and Chennai as become the preferred destination for more companies to set up their presence,' the IT secretary said.
The State has received a first tranche of Rs 97.17 crore from the Centre in its ambitious plan to interlink all government offices in the districts through State-Wide Area Network (SWAN) and a special committee headed by Professor S R Raghavan, dean at IIT Madras, has gone into the specifics of the project, he stated. In this networking project there would be around 385 nodal points of exchange, comprising 206 taluks and 179 block level areas. Of critical importance to the success of new companies would be their timely delivery model to their domestic and offshore customers with better solutions, he said.
Chennai centre is the company's third one with Bangalore, its headquarters, and Thiruvananthapuram having design centres with focus on products development, networking and systems integration.
Tata Elxsi has a design centre in Mumbai with specialisation in animation and special effects in multimedia technologies. With an employee strength of 1,700 in all its design centres, the company is hoping to hire 100 specialists at its newly set-up Chennai office, which would be gradually raise to 500 numbers. 'We will be undertaking R &D in networking and communications technology in conjunction with our global partners. With availability of wide talent pool and a ready infrastructure, Chennai has been preferred as we feel the growth here,' said Jayen Gourishankar, head, Design and Development Centre, Chennai.
With the city attracting manufacturers like Nokia and Alcatel having announced tie-up with C-Dot for i-Max technology, 'we are looking for local partners and manufacturers for taking forward our activity in wireless and convergence technologies,' he said.
Professor Raghavan in his address said Tamilnadu with good number of engineering colleges has enormous human resource potential in the districts that were waiting to be tapped.
Though there were 2,800 villages in the country having fibre network to support IT environment with 24x7 operations, 'we need to have social justice in megabyte distribution even as emerging technologies will drive newer applications in wireless communications,' he said.
http://newstodaynet.com/21apr/bu1.htm
Tata Elxsi, the product design arm of $14.25 billion Tata group, has set-up a design and development centre in Chennai to focus on wireless communications and networking and undertaking research on convergence technologies. The new office space of 10,000 sq ft in the heart of the city was inaugurated yesterday by the State IT secretary Vivek Harinarain.
In networking, the company offers end-to-end design and development services for its customers, enters into partnerships with manufacturers and product vendors for joint development of new products, thereby helps in the saving of R&D costs of their clients. 'Wireless networking is an emerging sector of the communications technology and Chennai as become the preferred destination for more companies to set up their presence,' the IT secretary said.
The State has received a first tranche of Rs 97.17 crore from the Centre in its ambitious plan to interlink all government offices in the districts through State-Wide Area Network (SWAN) and a special committee headed by Professor S R Raghavan, dean at IIT Madras, has gone into the specifics of the project, he stated. In this networking project there would be around 385 nodal points of exchange, comprising 206 taluks and 179 block level areas. Of critical importance to the success of new companies would be their timely delivery model to their domestic and offshore customers with better solutions, he said.
Chennai centre is the company's third one with Bangalore, its headquarters, and Thiruvananthapuram having design centres with focus on products development, networking and systems integration.
Tata Elxsi has a design centre in Mumbai with specialisation in animation and special effects in multimedia technologies. With an employee strength of 1,700 in all its design centres, the company is hoping to hire 100 specialists at its newly set-up Chennai office, which would be gradually raise to 500 numbers. 'We will be undertaking R &D in networking and communications technology in conjunction with our global partners. With availability of wide talent pool and a ready infrastructure, Chennai has been preferred as we feel the growth here,' said Jayen Gourishankar, head, Design and Development Centre, Chennai.
With the city attracting manufacturers like Nokia and Alcatel having announced tie-up with C-Dot for i-Max technology, 'we are looking for local partners and manufacturers for taking forward our activity in wireless and convergence technologies,' he said.
Professor Raghavan in his address said Tamilnadu with good number of engineering colleges has enormous human resource potential in the districts that were waiting to be tapped.
Though there were 2,800 villages in the country having fibre network to support IT environment with 24x7 operations, 'we need to have social justice in megabyte distribution even as emerging technologies will drive newer applications in wireless communications,' he said.
http://newstodaynet.com/21apr/bu1.htm
Good info!
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