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BANGALORE: Homegrown networking hardware provider MRO-TEK plans to extend its family of network access products, by launching two more products. These include last mile carrier products brand-named 'e-CAT', which integrates TDM and Ethernet on the same fiber, and 'CUPEY', a box that carries TDM and Ethernet on Copper.
Ramakrishnan CS, the company's VP-marketing, informed CyberMedia News that the products which are in the beta stage have found favor with some customers including a South American telecom carrier.
He said the company's existing products -- media converter and bandwidth manager e-SONA 100 have gained good market traction. These products are manufactured at the company's own facility located at Electronics City in Bangalore.
The company has appointed 20 channel partners across the country including Datalink, eCaps, Convergent Communications and Nirmal Datacom to tap the enterprise market in the country. MRO-TEK has achieved customer wins in countries like Japan, Korea and Malaysia.
“We have seen good installations with ISPs like Hathway and others adopting e-SONA 100. Our product is popular since it costs just one-tenth the price of a similar appliance from a company like Packeteer. Besides our product installation does not require any change in configuration or tweaking of other boxes in the network,” said Ramakrishnan.
The company hopes to popularize its products abroad and recently tied up with channels in Europe. Ramakrishnan said that they would be targeting the US market next quarter.
Also on the anvil is the ramp up of the company's R&D headcount from 50 to 80 engineers over the next six months. MRO-TEK's revenues stood at Rs 120 crore in 2004, while this year it hopes to clock Rs 150 crore.
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