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.