Grand Atlantic to provide VOIP solutions

HYDERABAD: Grand Atlantic Corporation, a Hyderabad based company, is all set

to provide Voice over IP based products and solutions in the country. The

company is planning for a line of voice-over-Internet Protocol hardware and

software products aimed at enabling enterprises to manage and control business

VoIP networks.

"We are going to launch our product range in the month of February. The

company was waiting for the right moment to unveil its product range and this is

the right time to do so as the government of India is going to open up its

policy towards the usage of the public Internet for voice based VOIP most

probably from April. Initially we are going to operate from our Hyderabad office

only and within six months time we are going to have our presence all over the

country," said Grand Atlantic Corporation president, R Sudhir Reddy.

Labeled GateCall - the range of products include a VIOP bridge, a gateway and

other networking products. The products also include mini remote access servers,

which help to log onto the network from a remote location. "We also have

mini routers, wireless data bridges and a number of devices and solutions for

enterprise networking. We are targeting our products for the individual, SOHO,

SME, corporate and government segment. Our product prices starts at Rs 15,000

and goes upto Rs 2 lakh so it reduces costs of communication to quite an

extent," he explained.

With its core focus towards the VOIP based communication solutions, the

company started its operations in US about two years back. "We were looking

at the Indian market for quite sometime and now we decided to move our

headquarters to the country as this is the right time to do so," Reddy

said.

The company has already invested Rs 70 lakh in setting up its development

center at Hyderabad and is planning to increase the investment to about Rs 2

crore for further strengthening its position in the Indian sub-continent.

"The market in India is a big one and we expect to generate more than Rs 30

crore within the first year of our operations itself," he added.