Allied Telesyn
Contact Person: Pradeep Joshi
192, Manu Apartments,
6, Mayur Vihar-1
New Delhi 110 091
Tel: 91-11-2256691
Fax: 91-11-2492453
Web site: www.alliedtelesyn.com

Prominent in the northern and western part of the country, the company did business worth Rs 11.15 crore in 2000-2001. Media convertors and routers accounted for a major chunk of its business followed by switches and hubs.

ARM Ltd
Contact Person: Sumanth Paturu
7-139, Habsiguda
Hyderabad 560 007
Andhra Pradesh
Tel: 040-7175100
Web site: www.armindia.com
The company offers a product range that covers a broad spectrum of telecom products and accessories. ARM has four manufacturing units, five service divisions apart from a R&D center in Hyderabad. The company has positioned itself as "one stop shop" to meet the needs for emerging communications equipment and related services for cellular, fixed line, Internet and satellite operators.

Ascom (I) Pvt Ltd
Contact Person: Sudhir Gupta
34, Udyog Vihar Phase IV
Gurgaon 122 016, Haryana
Tel: 0124-6342083
Fax: 0124- 6349114
Web site: www.ascom.co.in
Ascom did business worth Rs 11.4 crore in HDSL modems and universal multiplexers, with the former accounting for the major chunk of it. Almost, 65 percent of its business came from the telecom and ISP segment. This year Ascom plans to expand channel partners to increase geographical coverage.

BPL Telecom Ltd
54, Richmond Road, Bangalore 560 025
Tel: 080-5095130/1/3
Fax: 080-5594920
Web site: www.bpltelecom.com
BTL offers systems solutions behind EPABX and services for enterprise communication networks. The vendor claims expertise in providing end-to-end solutions including long distance backbone, local access/last mile solutions, protocol routing, network manage-ment systems and certain applications, such as billing, etc.

Convergent Communications (India) Pvt Ltd
108, Gavipuram Guttahalli Off. Bull Temple Road
Bangalore 560 019
Tel: 080-6612973-76
Fax: 080-6612977
Web site: www.convergentindia.com
A brainchild of former Motorola employees, Convergent is the principal business partner of Motorola’s multi-service networking division for India and SAARC countries. Besides, it also supports all WAN customers of Motorola, who have purchased equipment over the past ten years. Patton Electronics and Zoom Telephonics are the other technology partners of Convergent.

Ericsson Communications Pvt Ltd
Contact Person: Sanjay Sharma
The Great Eastern Plaza, 2-A,
Bhikaji Cama Place
New Delhi 110 066
Tel: 011-6180808
Fax: 011-6187878
Web site: www.ericsson.se
Ericsson, one of the largest suppliers of telecom infrastructure, has developed products for DWDM and SDH space. It has tied-up with Juniper for its best seller Gigabit routers. With its Tigris line of RAS products, it has already made its presence felt in the Indian networking market. Ericsson is strongly placed to take advantage of its strong positioning in the new generation wireless infrastructure market.

Essel Shyam Communications Ltd
Contact Person: Harish Agarwal
C-138, Naraina, Industrial Area, Phase I
New Delhi 110 028
Tel: 011-5799924/25/27
Fax: 011-5799926
Turnover: Rs 21.5 crore
Essel Shyam is very active in media and distance education segment and is looking at the Internet market. With the opening of Ku-band, the company is planning to setup a Ku-band hub. On the distance education front, the company has got orders from IGNOU and Zee Interactive Learning Systems.

Krone Communications Ltd
Contact Person: D S Nagendra
Hosto Centre, 3rd Floor
Miller’s Road, Bangalore
Tel: 080-2251904
Fax: 080-2251693
Web site: www.kroneasia.com
In the business of fiber optic solutions and structured cabling, Krone attained a turnover of Rs 63.92 crore during 2000-2001. Of this, structured cabling accounted for Rs 12.16 crores. With clients in the government, IT, banking and finance, telecom, ISP and defense sectors, Krone has been more active in the western and southern region of the country. During the period, the company increased its focus on fiber and TrueNet based solutions. Krone intends to expand its product portfolio with continued focus on fiber and TrueNet solutions in the current fiscal.