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Vegayan @ IEEE ANTS 2008

The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) is back at IIT Bombay. Vegayan had the opportunity to exhibit its products and solutions at the conference. Many stalwarts from telecom world- industry as well as academia- who were participants/speakers at the conference visited our booth.

Vegayan’s CEO Dr. Girish Saraph also played a prominent role in ANTS 2008 conference by moderating Service Provider Panel. The theme of the panel discussion was on current as well as future trends on technologies and services. The panelists were key people driving growth in the Indian telecom industry represented carriers/service providers.

From R to L: J. Gopal- Executive Director at MTNL, Arvind Mathur- Chief Solution Architect at Sify India, Sumit Chowdhury- CIO at Reliance Communications and Dr. Girish Saraph- CEO Vegayan Systems moderating the panel

Industry Track @ NCC 2008…..

Dr. Saraph from Vegayan coordinated the industry track at NCC 2008. It featured prominent invitees from telecom industry including stalwarts from Bharti Airtel, Reliance, Tata-VSNL, Tejas Networks, GTL…..

For more details go to Industry Track @ NCC 2008

Booth……

We had also setup a booth for Vegayan at the conference. This gave us an opportunity to showcase our company, product and vision. We had a wonderful opportunity to interact with some of the dignitaries from the industry, benefited from their insights and gained visibility.

Vegayan @ ANTS 2007

The ANTS (Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems) conference, involving active participation from stalwarts of global telecom industry was a big event to end the year. The conference conducted on Dec 17^th, 18^th at KReSIT, IIT Bombay (right below Vegayan’s HQ) was the best platform we could have asked for to showcase our products and their value proposition.

Vegayan’s booth attracted a large number of visitors on both the days and it was an amazing experience to present how Vegayan aims to change the global communications landscape. Many of the prominent speakers and participants at the conference were so impressed by Vegayan’s innovative technology that they could not resist coming upstairs to visit Vegayan Office to inquire in detail about Vegayan’s product portfolio and go through a product demo.

Vegayan played a prominent role in the conference, with its founder Dr. Girish Saraph moderating the service provider’s panel discussion on Day 2 of the conference. The theme of this panel was to discuss key technologies that will define service provider networks and upcoming services. The panelists were key people driving growth in the global telecom segment represented academic, carriers/service providers and equipment vendor communities thereby providing a holistic view of what would shape the next generation networks and services.

From L to R: Vijay Jain- Director, Broadband Operations at Ericsson India, Chris Buchanan- Solutions leader Voice & SMB at Nortel, Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzman- Oklahoma University USA, T.V. Sriram- VP at Bharti-Airtel India, Tushar Saxena- Director, at Verizon Communications USA, Neeraj Sonker- VP Engineering at Tata VSNL India, Arvind Mathur- Chief Architect at Sify India and Extreme R: Dr. Girish Saraph- Vegayan Systems moderating the panel

The event provided us with a lot of visibility, traction with who-is-who of Indian and Global telecom industry. It may potentially lead to many opportunities of strategic alliance.

Snippets from Workshop at Reliance

We visited Reliance Tech Innovation center at DAKC Campus for a workshop. I have been at the campus before, however this time I also visited their lab testing facilities. What a testing facility ? Mind-blowing !. Believe me it’s one sight , array of servers, routers, switches all stacked up and cabled. Definitely at par with the best of best by global standards.

The workshop was given by Dr. Saraph, it covered Enabling QoS and Operational challenges for MPLS networks.

We had interesting exchange of ideas and information. For me technical discussions post workshop were more informative mainly because of it’s one to one nature. We definitely gained more insight into how things works at NOC, as they addressed our specific queries. I thank the folks at Reliance for this opportunity and their hospitality.

Two Days at MTNL Training Centre

Some of us (Amit, Dakshina, Prashant and Vijay ) from Vegayan attended the two days sessions on MPLS Technology at MTNL, Training Centre in Hiranandani, Powai. Prof. Girish Saraph was the speaker in those sessions. The sessions were attended by high ranking officials from MTNL. I must say it was very good experience to know about the latest in MPLS Technology tracing through earlier connection oriented technologies like X.25, frame relay and ATM. I am eagerly looking forward to gain from similar events in future.

World Telecom and Information Society Day

” World Telecommunication Day, now called World Telecom & Information Society Day is the single most significant day in the life of Communication celebrated at international level everywhere in the objective to enhance public’s awareness of the important roles played by telecommunication in the social welfare and the socio-economic development of a country. “

Source: http://worldtelecomday.com

As part of World Telecom and Information Society Day celebration MTNL (CETTM) invited Dr. Girish Saraph of Vegayan Systems and IIT Bombay to deliver an invited seminar. Myself (Amit ) and Zaid, both from Vegayan, attended the event. It was a fairly good size and well-managed event with over fifty high-ranking officers from MTNL (mostly from Mumbai region) attending it.

Mr. M.K. Shedha (GM, MTNL) inaugurated the event with a brief history of the Day. It commemmorates signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865. He then welcomed the guests for the invited seminar.

Professor Girish P. Saraph spoke on

Connecting the Young-Opportunities of ICT – How ICT has empowered todays youth, be it education, entertainment, social networking, employment or entrepreneurship.

Enabling QoS and Network Optimization on IP/MPLS Networks “ This talk focused on QoS mechanisms, QoS aware routing schemes and an overlay solution for enabling QoS on MPLS networks.

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