BANGALORE: Wipro Infotech has signed an agreement with the US-based Sitara
Networks Inc to offer India's first Quality of Service (QoS) products that would
optimize the use of bandwidth and service quality over the Internet. QoS is the
brand name of Sitara Networks, which offers an array of products that help in
optimizing the use of the Internet and its applications. QoSWorks, QoSArray and
QoSDirector are some of the products from Sitara.
"Our QoS products will help in optimizing the existing bandwidth and
increase returns on investments. Apart from assisting companies in overcoming
bandwidth shortage, the products will also enable firms to make proper use of
the existing IT infrastructure by prioritizing the type of traffic and its
applications," said Sitara vice president (Asia Pacific operations) Ehud
Weizman.
Although prices were not mentioned, Wipro Infotech president Suresh Vaswani
hinted that it might range somewhere between "a few lakhs of rupees to half
a crore." Its potential customers include large enterprises, Internet
Service Providers and ‘Cyber Campuses’. Revenue targets or size of the
market were also not divulged by the firms.
Sitara, a pioneer in Voice over IP, provides QoS solutions that integrates
applications and networks for enterprises and service providers for offering
VoIP. The company has products that have specific implication for VoIP in India,
once it is legalized in the country.
Both the companies will be jointly setting up 'Sitara-Wipro center of QoS
excellence' in India. "The QoS excellence center will be a critical
resource base for Indian IT professionals and corporates, aiming to achieve
higher network performance, ensuring the availability of mission critical
applications and to deliver additional revenue generating services to its
customers," said Ehud Weizman.