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Cisco sets up WAN in Gujarat for e-governance initiative

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NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems, a company dealing in networking, has announced the

setting up of a Wide Area Network (WAN) in Gujarat for its e-governance

initiative. As per the mandate, the WAN connects the State Headquarters with all

the 25 district headquarters and 225 taluka's across the State. This is one of

the first and only IP end-to-end e-governance network of its kind in India,

which would carry Voice, Video and Data on a single converged network based on

Cisco's AVVID architecture.

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This is an end-to-end IP network, which carries data, phone calls as well as

videoconferences on the same converged infrastructure. The network will be used

for communicating between the Chief Minister, Government bureaucrats and other

Government departments. The network's potential will also be harnessed by

putting it into use for broader range of applications including social usage

such as e learning, information kiosks amongst others.

The multi-service WAN comprises Cisco's 7500 series of high-performance

routers that forms the core, Cisco 3600 routers for aggregation at the District

level, and Cisco 1750 routers at the Taluka level of the network. In the campus

network, Cisco's 3500, 4000 and 6500 series LAN switches have been used.

"Gujarat understands both, long and short term impact of Information

Technology (IT) and the total architecture for e-enabling of administration has

been worked out accordingly", said R K Dave, OSD (IT) with the Govt. of

Gujarat and Engineer in charge of GSWAN project. Gujarat is the first state to

have IP based, AVVID architecture, Wide Area Network (WAN) supporting voice,

video and data.

The physical extent of WAN coverage is the smallest administrative unit upto

Taluka head quarter (225 Talukas in the state). IP based system architecture is

helping us - by offering "low cost integration and expansion"

flexibility, both in horizontal and longitudinal direction and perhaps will

keeping the "technology obsolescence" away for quite some time, said

Dave.

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