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  • Elcoteq launches Indian manufacturing facility

    BANGALORE: India’s software capital notched up another first today with the inauguration of Finland-based Elcoteq Network Corporation’s manufacturing facility for mobile phones and communications network equipment.

    With this, Elcoteq becomes the first global company to manufacture telecommunications equipment in India.
     
     
    Union minister of communications & information technology Dayanidhi Maran inaugurated the facility. Elcoteq’s Bangalore facility will employ approximately 1,000 people when fully operational and provide products for global customers operating in India as well as the Asia Pacific region. The facility was completed in a record time of nine months.
     
     
    Elcoteq is the first high-volume electronics manufacturing services company in India for global communications technology customers. The products manufactured in Bangalore include terminal products like mobile phones and communications network equipment.
     
     
    The inauguration heralds the emergence of electronics manufacturing services in India and signals India’s firm intention in establishing itself as a global telecommunications-manufacturing hub.

  • Aylus sets up facility for mobile b’cast TV-video & multimedia services

    MUMBAI: Aylus Networks (ANW) a US based company today announced setting up its global R&D center in Bangalore. The engineers in the Bangalore center and Massachusetts, USA, will work in tandem to build Mobility Management switch solutions that will enable service providers to deliver mobile broadcast T V/Video and multimedia services across multiple access networks.

    ANW is confident that the product will be available for deployment early October next year.
     
     

    ANW has raised $10 million from two premier venture capital firms, Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners during the first round. The money raised will be utilised for technology development in India as well as the US.
     
     

    “Wireless operators as well as cable operators are looking into providing mobile TV and content over dedicated mobile TV broadcast networks and over 3G networks to hand held devices. At the same time, convergence between wireless, wireline and cable operators is demanding technology that can span across various access networks, e.g., 2.5G/3G, Cable networks, DSL networks, WiFI , WiMax and mobile broadcast TV networks, to provide uniform multimedia services. Aylus Mobility management switch will enable the providers to offer high definition TV, content and multimedia services across all networks,” said ANW president and CEO Mahesh Ganmukhi.

    Mobile content is the next technology wave. Some examples of the mobile contents are video clips of sports events, news, TV shows and movies. There are three screens available for content to subscribers today – TV, PC and mobile hand held devices. So far the content was available over TV and PC. Now the demand for content on the “Third Screen”, the screen of a mobile hand held device, is growing rapidly by the mobile subscribers.

    As per ANW, there are over 1.8 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide today and this number is expected to grow to three billion by 2010. These subscribers would like to have mobile content along with current voice service.

    ANW estimates put the world wide market size for services providers in Broadcast TV and Video over hand held devices is estimated to grow to 250 million subscribers by 2010 to generate over $27 billion and market of mobile virtual network operators is pegged to grow to 76 million subscribers to generate $25 billion.

  • Discovery US extends ops through new facility

    MUMBAI: Discovery US has launched a state-of-the-art Discovery Television and Technology Center. This will serve as the new home for the network origination for 13 of Discovery’s US Networks and BBC America, encompassing a total of 17 network feeds.
     
     

    As Discovery US celebrates its 20th anniversary later this year, the company will provide increasingly connected consumers with the highest quality viewing experience through the digital, file-based, high-definition ready, owned-and-operated playout facility which began broadcasting today. In this digital age, the Discovery Television and Technology Center, located in Virginia leverages the latest technology to ensure that Discovery’s commitment to quality extends all the way from production to air.

    The aim of the Center’s specialized technology, systems and staff will be to guarantee that when viewers tune into any of Discovery’s US Networks they will be met with quality programming provided at superior broadcast standards. Discovery states that the facility is a fusion of broadcast and information technology that enables the use of digital files paired with high-bandwidth data networking instead of video tapes for the storage and distribution of all programs, commercials, and other broadcast elements.

    As a result, the center provides cost-effective flexibility that can evolve with Discovery as it brings content to a growing number of subscribers through traditional and new media. With system integration services provided by Ascent Media Systems & Technology Services, the true design and operational center of the facility is the glass-enclosed, circular master control area that can support any mixture of up to 64 channels of HD or SD programming. The master control features three on-air supervisor posts, with the ability to add one more, and is surrounded by ten transmission pods that can be easily configured to control as little as one or as many as six of Discovery’s US Networks in various combinations based on business needs.

    Additionally, the design will result in tremendous operational cost savings, while providing the ability to ensure proper signal monitoring during key programming day parts. The center boasts eight active media ingest/QC suites that can be grown to ten, a HD/SD-hybrid live events control room, two non-linear post-production suites and a transmission operations center (TOC). The fully integrated, server-based venue also hosts a massive digital data archive and on-site physical media library. After the initial content ingest, the entire end-to-end workflow occurs in a tapeless manner employing five video servers that provide 2000 hours of online storage and a nearline tape archive that supports up to 90 petabytes of high-resolution content.

  • VeriSign sets up facility in Bangalore

    BANGALORE: US-based VeriSign, a provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the internet and telecommunications networks has set up their Indian Development Center (IDC) at Bangalore.

    An investment of $350,000 has already been while another US$650,000 is in the pipeline. And the total investments to an order of $6 billion were announced by VeriSign’s Aristotle Balogh, Sr. VP, Operations and Infrastructure.
     

    The $6 million investments will be utilized towards infrastructure, human resources and R & D in wireline and wireless, e-commerce and other forms of on-line transaction processing (OLTP), security and Oracle 11i development and maintenance areas.

    The IDC will undertake end-to-end product engineering, design, development, testing and software cycle management for products and services running over IP and telecommunications network.

    The 20000 square feet utility would initially house 50 employees and this number is expected to go up to 125 by the end of 2005.
     
     

    VeriSign Global Product Engineering VP Manoj Srivastava, who would be in charge of the Bangalore facility said, “The IDC will play a key role in building core mission critical solutions for telecommunications, Internet and Management Information Systems (MIS). We are recruiting highly qualified engineering and software professionals to work with cutting edge product and technologies and aim to significantly increase new product development capacity of VeriSign at the IDC”, while addressing media persons.

    Balogh added, “The IDC will help VeriSign develop products and create more releases in shorter spans of time.”

    Each day VeriSign enables more than 14 billion Internet transactions, 3 billion telephony signals, US$100 million in transactions, and delivery of over 10 million wireless text and content messages. The company also provides services that secure more than 3000 global enterprises and over 450,000 web sites. VeriSign reported revenues of US$1.2billion or 2004, US$400 million for Q1, 2005 and expect to gross US$1.7billion during 2005.

  • Coca-Cola aims to increase juice production with new manufacturing facility

    BANGALORE: Coca-Cola India has a new juice manufacturing facility at Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. Brindavan Beverages Pvt. Ltd, Coca-Cola’s franchisee bottler, has invested Rs 400 million in the project to meet the rapidly growing demand for the juice brand Maaza in North, East, Central India and Western India.
     

     
    Coca-Cola India has provided technical inputs and support to set up the new line and will continue to provide support for marketing and training to Brindavan Beverages Pvt Ltd. The new line will have the capacity to produce close to 2,50,000 litres of juice products per day in a array of pack sizes ranging from 65ml tetra-packs to 1.2 ltr bottles. This new production facility will help to strengthen the Company’s leadership position as the largest mango pulp buyer in the country with annual consumption of 17,000 tonnes, states a company release.
    The new plant has been set up using modern technology imported from Krones Germany and Tetrapack Sweden and will produce both Pet bottles and tetra packs.

     
     
    Speaking on the occasion, Coca-Cola India president & CEO Sanjiv Gupta said, “The juice drink market in India is growing at an exponential pace and we as leaders are expanding the market to provide our discerning consumers with innovative packaging and flavours of Maaza. We are planning to increase penetration of brand Maaza in 750 towns across India with new flavour extensions.” He added, “I am pleased that Brindavan Beverages Pvt Ltd has become the first Coca-Cola franchisee to have a state-of-the-art facility to produce juice drinks.”
    Brindavan Beverages Pvt Ltd MD SN Ladhani said, “We have invested approximately Rs 2 billion in Bareilly itself over the last five years and the Ladhani Group has invested close to Rs 600 crores across five locations in Uttar Pradesh, creating prosperity and employment opportunities for thousands in the state.”

     
     
    Over the years, Maaza has grown to become the market leader in the juice drink category. Now the Company is expanding the brand Maaza to include exciting flavours like pineapple and orange. Consumers regard Maaza as wholesome, natural, fun drink which delivers the real experience of fruit, adds the news release.

  • Macmillan’s Bangalore facility launched

    BANGALORE: Publishing firm Macmillan India Ltd has opened its book typesetting division in Bangalore. With this entry, the company aims to become a major supplier of books and major references typesetting.
    MIL’s new book typesetting unit is spread over an area of 23,000 sq ft and five floors in central Bangalore. The state-of-the-art facility with a modern data centre can accommodate more than 500 staff.

     
     
    The centre was inaugurated by Macmillan India LTD chairman and Macmillan UK CEO Richard Charkin. Macmillan (UK) director Michael Barnard and Macmillan India LTD (MIL) director Rajiv Beri were present at the occasion.
    Speaking at the inauguration, Richard Charkin said, “Macmillan has been present in India for more than 100 years now and our substantial investment in this new facility marks a significant next stage in this long and successful association. The Bangalore operation will rapidly become a global center of excellence for Macmillan, playing a key role in providing new and additional world class services for our customers.”

     
     
    At present 175 people are working from this new site and Macmillan has plans to have 300 people in 2005 and 500 by 2006. Current capacity is fully booked by present customers and they are planning rapid expansion to enhance production capacity. With their new expansion plan for book typesetting, they expect to generate revenue of around $4 million by 2006 from this division.
     
     
    Macmillan India head Rajiv Beri said, “Information Processing division of Macmillan was formed way back in 1977 and since then we have been the leading supplier of typesetting, data processing and information processing. In an indirect way, we could say we were already outsourcing from here 28 years ago, even before Bangalore became well established for its role as the leading Indian city for locating offshore operations. Our highly skilled workforce prides itself on the best quality at highly competitive prices”.