SGI servers selected for National Internet Backbone

SGI-India has announced

that it has bagged the order for the supply of high performance servers

for the first phase of the National Internet Backbone (NIB) project being

implemented by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). SGI was part of

a consortium led by Crompton Greaves Ltd., which was awarded the contract.

Other bidders included an ITI Ltd-led consortium with IBM as a key

partner.

The server component of the contract which has gone

to SGI includes a total of 52 Origin 200 and 4 Origin 2000 servers valued

at approximately Rs 10 crore. Announcing the order, SGI-India Managing

Director

Dr. Prasad Medury also said that, in spite of the

general decline in revenues of hardware players and post-Pokhran

sanctions, SGI-India has recorded an overall revenue growth of 7 percent

over the previous year. With the success of new product lines like the

NT/Intel servers and workstations, continued leadership in the Unix

workstation market and new orders in the Internet space, SGI-India hopes

to achieve almost 40 percent growth in the new fiscal. Dr. Medury also

announced that SGI would soon be announcing 2-way and 8-way versions of

SGI 1400 servers based on Windows NT and Intel hardware. The currently

available server is a 4-way box.