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SECOND IN ASIA: Mr Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, Nortel (left) and Mr Sanjay Jotshi, Vice-President, Marketing, Nortel at a press conference in Bangalore on Tuesday. — G. R. N. Somashekar

Bangalore , Aug. 22

Nortel on Tuesday announced the opening of first Technology Excellence Centre in India that would focus on new product design, development and testing to deliver greater cost benefits to its global customers. The centre located in Bangalore would strengthen the IT major's research and development engagement. The company already has working partnership with Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Sasken for 15 years now.

Addressing a Press conference here on Tuesday, Mr Ravi Chauhan, Managing Director, said the centre would have 100 professionals to build on Nortel's capabilities in advanced routers, Ethernet switching, security and Voice over Internet Protocol technologies.

The centre would be headed by Mr K.C. Venugopal, founding member of Tasman Networks, a router company recently acquired by Nortel.

Mr Chauhan, while declining to share the investment made on the new centre, said the convergence of IT and communication technologies had opened up new opportunities for Nortel, which planned to leverage it for making India a key source for products and services to cater to global market.

The centre is the company's 13th in R&D across the world and second in Asia after Beijing.

Nortel, which has so far invested $ one billion in India, was also eyeing India as a market for its products coming out of the new centre when the market matures further, Mr Chauhan said.

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