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Swetha Kannan

Bangalore, Sept. 1 Cisco Services is eyeing the Bangladesh market to offer services support to e-governance and education projects in the country.

Cisco Services provides technical service and consulting support to customers across verticals and is leading Cisco’s transformation from being a products’ company to being solutions-focused.

It offers an integrated suite of IT services to suit the needs of businesses of different sizes and operations.

The US-based Cisco’s services business is present across locations where it has sales offices and channel partners.

In Asia, it is present in India, Sri Lanka and Maldives. The company will soon set up a services depot in Bangladesh that will offer break-fix support. “There is increased action in e-governance and education projects in Bangladesh and we would like to target these areas to offer our services,” said Mr Kumar G.B., Senior Vice-President – Services, India and SAARC, Cisco.

Cisco Services in India too works on various government projects in areas such as WAN and wireless spectrum. About 20 per cent of Cisco Services’ business comes from Government and defence. One-third is from telecom companies and the rest is from enterprises.

In India, Cisco Services is present in Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Bangalore and Mumbai. It will soon set up a dedicated resource centre in Kolkata, said Mr Kumar. In India, there is a team of 100 people, mostly domain specialists and project managers, catering to the local market. The services division also has around 1,500 people working on global back-end offerings.

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