Saturday, November 18, 2006

Bharti Infotel and Cisco systems to empower enterprise networks

Bharti Infotel Ltd., India's leading provider of access, long distance, data, and corporate solutions announced that it is working with Cisco on the technology for state-of-the-art services and solutions for its enterprise and corporate customers. Bharti Infotel has deployed a Cisco IP-based MPLS backbone solution based on the Cisco 12000, 10000, 7300, and 7200 Series Routers and Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Switches. Cisco is a pioneer and global leader in MPLS-based technology and networking solutions.

MPLS is a next generation networking technology that combines high-speed performance with security, scalability, and reliability. It also helps in the provisioning of several revenue-generating services such as bandwidth on demand, managed services, and intelligent routing of voice, data, and other mission-critical traffic. The deployment of MPLS is in keeping with Bharti Infotel's strategy to further consolidate its leadership in the data and broadband market, where the company has a market share of nearly 50 percent. With a DWDM-based high-capacity fiber backbone, cable landing facilities for international bandwidth, and now an MPLS backbone, Bharti Infotel offers a unique value proposition for its customers.

The Data and Broadband group of Bharti Infotel will be marketing these new revenue-generating services to enterprises, corporations, and other service providers, and is targeting revenues in excess of Rs100 crore (US$22 million) this fiscal year from the sale of capacities using IP-based MPLS technology. With reduced cost of ownership for corporations and enterprises, Bharti expects more and more of them to connect their offices, vendors, partners, and customers through the MPLS backbone, thereby increasing the overall market size for MPLS VPNs. The Data and Broadband group currently has the top-500 corporations in the country as its customers, including corporations in the BPO (business process outsourcing), consumer products, media, and entertainment sectors

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