Lucent to enter Indian ISP market

US telecom major Lucent Technologies will enter the Indian Internet market through its

recently constituted Internetworking Services (INS) division by introducing a faster and

cost effective DSL connectivity technology.

INS Country Manager, Hirendra Gupta said that the company

had already bagged contracts from many of the Internet Service Providers (ISP) for its

latest digital subscriber line (DSL) and is negotiating with VSNL, MTNL and other private

players in the segment.

INS was formed last month after the telecom major merged

its Internet operations with the operations of Ascend technologies, after it was bought

for $24 billion. Besides the DSL technology, the INS will market their remote access

servers (RAS) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) switches to ISPs and other telecom

companies in the country through the vast Lucent network in the country.

Ascend, now INS has already entered into a partnership with

C-Dot to provide a national backbone for the intelligence network (IN) of the Department

of Telecommunications to supply IN switches and other platforms for the project.