Aylus opens India development center

BANGALORE: Aylus Networks, a US-based start-up that is planning to make the quadraple play (voice, data, video and broadcast) revolution possible through its switching solutions, has announced the setting up of its R&D center in Bangalore.

The company recently raised $10 million from VC firms, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners, which would be used for technology development.

The company would have part of its engineering team (around 25 engineers by the year-end) here, while the rest work at the company's headquarters in Massachusetts.

Explaining Aylus's technology focus, Mahesh Ganmukhi, president and CEO told a media conference, "We want to develop mobility management switches that would allow service providers to deliver converged service (mobile broadcast TV, video and multimedia services) over various access networks." He said that the product was expected to be release in a year's time.

The company aims to sell its product to communication providers. Ganmukhi said that using this service, any mobile user can seamlessly switch from one service to another, be it 2.5 G/3G, cable networks, DSL networks, wi-fi or WiMax. "For example a user on a voice call can switch to a VoIP call once he enters his house or in other words access a cheaper service," he said.

Aylus hopes to strike it big in the market for broadcast TV/video over mobile phone, which is expected to reach $27 billion by 2010. The market for mobile virtual network operators is expected to generate $25 billion.