Vanu Inc opens R

Bangalore, Dec 6: Leader in development of software radio solutions for Cellular Operators, Vanu Inc, today announced the opening of its Research and Development Centre in Bangalore besides initiating marketing of software solution for base station platform for GSM and CDMA applications.

Company CEO Vanu Bose told the sources that the company was already working with the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) for a software match for its Rural Automatic Exchanges that could change the scene of communication delivery in rural areas with minimal costs The Centre which would initially have only around seven engineers would be ramped up by the year end next year when it would start development of software solutions for 3G and 4G waforms in the coiuntry.

Dr Bose said already the company has taken up certain demonstration projects with CDOT in Tamil Nadu and New Delhi and its solutions were also being tested for interoperability in Nortel switches.

Besides India, South American and the US markets offered great scope for marketing of the new communciation technology, especially in the sptectrum shrunk environment.

Dr Bose said that the technology developed by Vanu had been deployed in rurakl areas of North America and has gained recognistion a the wireless Industryu's oinly infrastructure solution to simultaneously oeprate multiple standards on a single system. For wireless operators in India, the ability to run GSM and CDMA simultaneously on a single network positions Indian operators to rapidly take advantages of many of the spectrum rule changes currently under discussion.

He said the company besides ramping up its research base in Bangalore would also be setting up marketing teams in Mumbai and Delhi besides building a technical support groups.

UNI