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Dinesh Malkani, President – Sales, Cisco India & Saarc, during his inaugural address at the summit. market share across segments, including enterprise routing (75%), switching (71%), telepresence (54%), wireless LAN (52%), service provider routing (52% ) and others,” informed Malkani.
Opportunities for private sector It is estimated that there will be 526 million Internet users in India by 2018 and over 1.5 billion networked devices. Cisco is of the view that the huge surge in mobile devices, Internet connectivity along with digital services both in private as well as government sector will need massive networks and infrastructure. In view of the market opportunities, Cisco has already expanded its presence in 49 cities and will move into more locations to serve the Indian market through its partner ecosystem comprising of channel partners, system integrators (SIs) and global service providers (GSPs). According to Malkani, Cisco will engage in public-private-partnership EXPRESS COMPUTER
(PPP) models to enable various initiatives of Digital India programme — smart cities, education, healthcare, mobile banking services, etc. During the summit, Cisco announced a key partnership session with ILFS Technologies Ltd (ITL) – a technology solutions arm of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS). Under this, Cisco will leverage its Internet of Everything (IoE) concept with ITL’s infrastructure capabilities to build digital solutions for India’s infrastructure and smart cities.
Made in India Cisco is actively participating in the ‘Make in India’ programme by way of collaboration with Covacsis for connected manufacturing initiative. During the summit, Cisco showcased three networking products, which have been conceptualised, architected and designed in India. It unveiled two routers – ASR (Aggregation Services Router)
920-O and ISR (Integrated Services Router) 800M and MDS (Multilayer Director Switch) 9250i. These products are developed and built by company’s engineering and systems division based in Bangalore. “Cisco’s belief is that the innovative application of technology can have a positive impact on India’s competitiveness, diversification of its industry base, its ability to create jobs and improve quality of life for its citizens,” said Amit Phadnis, President - Engineering and India Site Leader, Cisco. “Helping people connect and collaborate is not just core to our business, it’s what makes us want to create and innovate everyday. We are thrilled that the three products we announced today are made from India, made for India and will help enable a Digital India,” concluded Phadnis. pankaj.maru@expressindia.com
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