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Net Brahma to make it as independent company

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BANGALORE: Net Brahma Technologies, a Microland group company, is in the

process of raising venture capital funding and being spun off as an independent

company of the Microland group. According to Net Brahma CEO Bhasker Sharma, this

process will be completed by January 2001. The funds will be used to set up

additional offices in the US and Europe in the next 6-12 months, build

additional office infrastructure to cater to over 100 people in the next 12

months and for development and marketing of niche products.

As part of its plans, Net Brahma has opened its development center at

Bangalore. The new center will focus on design and development of software

components for vendors of next generation networking equipment. The development

center is equipped with communications test lab, will build software products

like terabit routers, optical switches, IP aggregation devices, MPLS switches,

voice over IP gateways and class 5 IP switches. The company has invested around

Rs 1 crore in the new facility. Net Brahma has 42 professionals working for it.

Launched in July 2000, Net Brahma Technologies, has built an SNMP based

protocol test tool that can be used for automation of testing protocols such as

BGP4, OSPF and IP in routers and switches This product is currently being

demonstrated to several data communications equipment makers in the US. Along

with this, the company is working on several software products in the areas of

VPN framework, MPLS based traffic engineering and IP telephone.

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