The Rs 205 crore D-Link India, which is gradually emerging as a serious player in the Indian networking equipment market, recently received a shot in the arm following its co-branding alliance with Foundry Networks, one of the global leaders in high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing and Web traffic management solutions.

With a view to educate the Indian enterprises about the effects of this alliance as well as the features of the different Foundry solutions, D-Link recently organized a three-city Technology Seminar in New Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai.

Chandra Kopparapu, vice president, Multi-Layer Switching Products, Foundry Networks US, was the prime speaker at the event. The seminar demystified the latest in 10Gb Ethernet, Layer 4-7 Switching, IPv6, Security & Metro Ethernet Networks and highlighted solutions that help enterprises and service providers build network infrastructure that lay the foundation for next-generation applications.

In addition to elucidating on different technologies, Kopparapu’s presentation also dwelt on how these technologies and solutions could increase performance, security, availability and scalability for enterprise network applications. "Companies are increasingly becoming used to IT being the crux of all their strategic decisions and the demands on the network are increasing exponentially. Indian enterprises might have recognized the fruits of IT late, but they surely are moving fast and are serious about future-proofing their network infrastructure for more demanding enterprise applications," he said.

The other speaker at the seminar, Prabodh Vyas, director—Sales, D-Link India, elaborated on the benefits of the D-Link Foundry alliance in India. Under the conditions of the agreement, the entire range of Foundry’s product suite including the ‘FastIron’ family of Layer 2/3 enterprise switches, the ‘BigIron’ family of Layer 3 backbone switches, the ‘EdgeIron’ family of Layer 2 wiring closet switches, the ‘NetIron’ family of metro routers and the ‘ServeIron’ Layer 4-7 traffic management switches are now available in India under the ‘Foundry-D-Link’ co-brand. "With co-branded products of Foundry Networks, we would now address the entire networking and communications product spectrum in India. Thus the customer would be able to get the complete enterprise solution from a single vendor and also enjoy the assurance of our service support," he added.

Rajneesh De

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