V&D 100 Awards


WIPRO - 'Chameleon of Networking'
Wipro can be complemented for truly adopting to change - both in the market and within the organisation. And its this ability to adapt bthat gets it the desired focus and skills to continue to be the top network integration company in the country. Credit for this must go to Suresh Vaswani, under whose leadership, Wipro has been able to be the networking leader at a time when every company claims to be a network integration company. The networking division grew by over 11 percent, and did business worth Rs 270 crore. With a history of undertaking over 200 projects, Wipro can claim expertese in a diverse range of areas and market segments, supported by 170 offices across the country. With one of the largest pool of certified technology specialists, and a high focus on service providers, call centers, IDCs and enterprises, this ISO 9000n certified integrator is further gearing itself up to be an end-end solutions company.
Designing the Cerebrum of Global Telecom Lucent, Nortel, Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, NEC, Cisco� No it is not a ranking of global telecom equipment companies. It is just a partial list of the telecom clients of Wipro Technologies. Indian companies have come a long way from the legacy system integration/Y2K fixing to development of technologies and applications for the biggest technology segment of them all�telecommunications. One company which has led them from the front is Wipro. In 2000-01, Wipro accounted for as much as 18 percent of the Rs 4034 crore worth of telecom software exports from India. The most striking thing about Wipro is that in telecom software, it is actually doing core network technologies development, working at the protocol level in cutting-edge technology areas. Its expertise spans from embedded systems to wireless applications, from audio codecs to service creation platforms. The company has also expanded into the service provider practice, its billing solution being one of the hottest telecom OSS products from India. For Wipro, it is just the beginning, though.