Microland service provider of Cisco

BANGALORE: Cisco Systems has appointed Microland as its professional services provider in the country, a deal that will enable it to provide service providers and enterprise customers with service and support in the arena of communications.

Microland as Cisco's professional services provider, will implement and support availability networks, offering the entire range of Cisco's service and support offerings besides delivering professional services such as programme and product management, WAN audit, LAN assessment and consulting services. Cisco Systems president India and SAARC region Anil Batra said, "Microland, which had the benefit of having been a Cisco system integrator partner previously, had built itself into a credible force in the Internet industry in India." He also said that, Cisco had realised, "you cannot do everything yourself, you have to partner and then you tilt the scales in your favor." He said the partnership would focus on India, but Sri Lanka and Bangladesh would also be included.

Microland is also setting up a competency centre, a virtual lab, which would train engineers and which could be accessed from anywhere, said Microland president global networking services Sharad Heda.