Global Electronic Commerce to launch B2B solutions

Global Electronic Commerce Service, a part of

the $135 million Global group, will target the `e’ business community

through its e-communications and e-commerce technology solutions. The

messaging solutions will allow e-mail to fax, fax to e-mail integration of

mails from different platforms and mail systems. The enhanced fax services

is expected to reduce business communications cost by 30 per cent.

For e-commerce requirements, the company has announced frame relay

virtual private network solutions for companies with offices in different

locations, a cheaper alternative to private leased lines. Corporates can

also opt to share Global’s network or route it through Global’s

network as an alternative to a busy network traffic. The company also uses

Nortel’s Passport switching enabling shared network bandwidth through

committed information network. This will enabled corporates to focus on

their core business as Global manages the network and the servers.

In the next two months, the company will be enabled commerce related

data exchanges as part of its solutions for e-commerce. The company will

set up data centers for hosting India/Asia centric Web sites, making India

a regional hub. Companies can also run databases and applications off the

servers at the data center. Global has also created business communities

for automotive industry and cargo for electronic data exchange.

The company, a Category A ISP licensee, has been providing Internet

bandwidth to corporates since December 1998. From December this year, this

will be extended to the retail segment through business partners who will

front end its services.