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BY ANUSHA ASHWIN In an email interaction, Mrinmoy Purkayastha, Vice President, Marketing of ALTEN Calsoft Labs, explains about his company's business offerings, strategies and agendas for the coming years. Excerpts:
Could you briefly explain how the company caters to the needs of the telecom industry?
ALTEN Calsoft Labs offers product engineering services to telecom equipment vendors across the product life cycle from concept to production. The company covers all stages of product development from proof-of-concept/prototyping to product development, testing and maintenance.
In addition, ALTEN Calsoft Labs assists telecom equipment vendors and ISVs in product customization and systems integration to support field deployment of products/solutions in the Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) areas.
We have always worked with our customers in helping them adopt latest technologies, like development of few of the industry's first Layer 4-7 switching products, or development of some of the industry's first SDN and NFV products, or development of next generation cloud security appliances, and so on. Our expertise in latest technologies and ability to build products and deploy solutions based on new disruptive technologies sets us apart from other players in the industry.
Could you name some of your clients and how has Alten Calsoft's services impacted their business?
We are helping a Norwegian gigabit broadband service provider, Bayonette, to transform their residential broadband network to offer next generation OTT video, healthcare and IoT services to home users, while reducing their CapEx and OpEx requirements significantly. As a result Bayonette is able to offer an enhanced bouquet of services to home users at a fraction of the cost that traditional broadband service providers are able to support.
We work with one of the world's largest telecom equipment vendors in virtualization of their Service Edge Router product line, and help them with their SDN platform and SDN application development efforts. Through this engagement we are helping our customer to accelerate their R&D efforts and roll out solutions faster to their end customers (i.e. Telecom Service Providers).
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