Cisco ties up with IIT to launch research lab

NEW DELHI: Cisco Systems, Inc., and IIT Delhi have launched the

"Advanced Networking research Lab" at IIT Delhi. This is the result of

the MoU that was signed between Cisco, a networking company and IIT Delhi in

April 2000. Cisco will be investing $200,000 in the sponsored lab and will

provide training, related materials and on-going support. The 24x7 lab will be a

resource center for faculty and students to conduct research, for students to

obtain hands-on training and for evaluating and demonstrating Cisco's

Architecture for Video, Voice and Integrated Data (AVVID) solution.

Cisco's investment will cover the cost of equipment (routers, high end

gigabit switches, firewalls and a complete VOIP solution - call manager,

gateways and VoIP phones), maintenance and 5 fellowships for the MS/PHD students

of $4,000 per student per year. Cisco's commitment will be for a period of four

years initially, after which it will be reviewed again. Cisco will also provide

internships for qualified students at its Global Development center at Bangalore.

Inaugurating the lab, Cisco Systems vice president and general manager, Prem

Jain, said, "India is well recognized now for its qualified technology

manpower. By creating this lab, we are giving an opportunity to the best talent

to develop solutions for future communication technologies on the IP platform.

Cisco will leverage its resources to bring to the market, world class solutions

that are developed at this lab".