Tata Communications- Betting Big (Premium) - View Free Sample
After putting a ring around the globe with its undersea cable network, Tata Communications is now riding high on cloud services to drive growth. Tata Communications, the true 'MNC originated from India', as its CEO Vinod Kumar puts, is all set to redefine its business model betting high on cloud services. In order to target the emerging markets around the world, as well as address the ongoing convergence of data traffic on Internet Protocol (IP) systems and the growing need for managed services, the Tata Group-Indian Government joint venture is putting all its thrust on cloud computing, enterprise video, and mobile broadband offerings. Speaking at the company's third annual global media and analyst summit, Kumar said that all future communication business would depend on how the services and desired content is delivered to the users seamlessly and anytime, anywhere. "Our focus on cloud computing, enterprise video, and mobile broadband were aligned with how the world expected services and content to be delivered and consumed anywhere, anytime," Kumar reasons.

Optimizing LTE Deployment (Premium) - View Free Sample
With the number of subscribers increasing everyday, the Indian telecom sector can reap benefits from LTE solutions if deployed successfully. In the past few years, India has witnessed unprecedented growth in the telecom sector. It seems likely that India will once again jump the curve and leapfrog to the next-generation 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. Some of the biggest operators in the country have acquired the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum and many of them have already carried out trials with the leading OEMs, and are currently planning their deployment strategies. LTE is based on the Evolved Packet System (EPS) which consists of a flat all-IP based architecture that supports an all-packet core known as the Evolved Packet Core (EPC). LTE has also incorporated significant advancements in the Radio Access Network (RAN), employing Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) through Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) antenna technology.

Networking Market poised for huge growth (Premium) - View Free Sample
With the advent of next-generation technologies, the networking market is poised for huge growth in india. With growing demand comes growing opportunities to fill this vacuum of need. The chicken and egg situation works no different in an enterprise market in India as well. The need of enterprise equipment and solutions are scaling high with huge demand by enterprises and SMEs in India. Based on its research during the Q3 of 2011, IDC forecasts 8.7% growth in enterprise network equipment spending in 2012, a substantial increase from the 3.8% growth the firm saw in the market last year. VOICE&DATA estimated the total enterprise equipment market to be Rs.24,023 crores in FY11, with growth of around 0.87%. Last fiscal, it was a flat year for the Indian enterprise equipment market. But things are warming up this year. Networking market in India has seen a good growth rate recently owing to infrastructure development in the country. According to IDC, enterprise networking market in India is rapidly evolving and it is stated to reach $3 bn by 2015 in India alone.

MCommerce- The Next Big Hope (Premium) - View Free Sample
M-commerce needs a much-required fillip to boost its services. At a time when the Indian telcos are leaving no stone unturned to cut each other's throat in the race of acquiring and retaining more and more customers by using cheap tariff and lucrative VAS apps as weapons, they have perhaps, so far overlooked other lucrative avenues to increase their bottomline. One of these is m-commerce. The country and the industry has so far been gung ho about its telecom success story and s ll chants numbers like 900 mn mobile customers, 10-15 mn new user additions on monthly basis, and a growth rate of 10-15% y-o-y, the same operators have somehow missed another huge number--around 700 mn.