Cisco unveils Globalisation Centre East campus
ConvergenceAsia staff
31/10/2007

Cisco has unveiled its state-of-the-art Globalisation Centre East campus in Bangalore. The company also announced that it is extending venture investment initiative in India by another US$100 million to drive growth with high-potential Indian companies.

The new centre will house an advanced Global Briefing Centre to showcase Cisco's latest technology solutions and provide an environment for closer collaboration with partners in spotlighting solutions for customers in emerging markets such as India, China, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Spread over 1 million square feet on the Outer Ring Road in Sarjapur, Bangalore, the first phase will accommodate staff from Cisco's Globalisation Centre, R&D, IT, and customer support teams in India. The first phase of the Cisco Globalisation Centre East campus will initially be able to accommodate 1,200 personnel. The second phase of the campus, which is expected to be completed by October 2009, will house an additional 2,000 staff.

The campus also houses the largest campus data centre outside the US and will provide a focal point for demonstrating next-generation virtualisation technologies and service oriented network architectures that support customers' global environments.

As a hub to support Cisco's growth in emerging markets, the new centre will house multiple TelePresence facilities to help scale teams to support customer engagements globally. In phase one, the campus is capable of supporting 12 simultaneous TelePresence sessions, with a total of 20 TelePresence units planned to be installed across the first four buildings.

Said Wim Elfrink, chief globalisation officer for Cisco, "The new Globalisation Centre East will offer a collaborative work environment to help us attract and retain top talent, and take full advantage of collaborative technologies such as Cisco TelePresence to help us scale to support our continued growth across multiple emerging economies."

In addition, as the first of several potential iniatives Cisco is pursuing within the new $100m investment goal, Cisco is collaborating with Satyam Computer Services to explore a new venture investment, which will focus on optimising, deploying and managing integrated healthcare management solutions globally.

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