3Com, TCS bag AP State Wide Area Network project

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, along with its partner 3Com Corporation has bagged the Andhra Pradesh State Wide Area Network (APSWAN) project. Under this deal,3Com will provide high-end enterprise switching, routing and security solutions for the prestigious project that will connect 23 district offices in the state to increase efficiency in government operations, a press release here said.

The Andhra Pradesh government in september this year awarded TCS the countrys largest State Wide Area Network (SWAN) project on a five year Build, Own, Operate, and Transfer (BOOT) mode. The project will enable the state government to start and run various projects for citizen services to boost G2G and G2C efficiencies that will help transform the e-governance structure.

''3Com's leadership in secure and high-performance networking at substantially lower cost helped to secure this deal, which will bring significant project deployment savings to TCS,'' Manoj Kanodia, CEO of Inspira Enterprise India Private Limitd, 3Coms exclusive master distributor in India, said.

''Being credited for having started the networking industry with the invention of Ethernet, 3Com has been on the forefront of innovation. We have a strong foothold in education and government verticals across the world and this win with TCS will help us carry our mission further in India,'' 3Com Asia Pacific Vice President and General Manager Rose Chen added. ''We are happy to partner 3Com for this prestigious project. The network is an important aspect in this ambitious project, which would connect various government offices with common service centres. It is on this network various e-government initiatives would ride and hence is very critical to the overall project,'' said TCS Vice President and Government ISU Head Tanmoy Chakrabarty. 3Coms network will enable the state government to communicate and conference across all government offices over VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which will reduce communication costs.

Applications covering transport, healthcare, education and municipality will also operate on this e-governance network backbone, which is scheduled to be rolled out within 12 months, the release added.

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