Dax offers routing solutions with Israeli alliance

Dax Networks has entered into a tie-up with Israel based Telco Systems to offer high capacity-carrier class routing solutions in India. The products will be available under the brand Dax Telco Systems, which will be targeted at the telecom, corporate and the enterprise segments. 

According to Dax Networks country manager Sujit Singh, as a result of this tie up the company, which till now has been addressing the edge and distribution levels in networking, will be addressing the entire gamut of networking. 

"Switching, Cabling and Routing (SCR) happens to be the core of networking where we were not present till now. But with this recent tie up, we have moved towards the core, with more focus on mature and high value networking," he added. 

Dax is targeting revenue of Rs 100 crore by 2006. For the coming financial year, Dax expects that two-thirds of its revenue will be coming from SCR. Of the Rs 4,000 crore Indian networking market, the share of SCR stands at Rs 1,500 crore. Dax already commands a two percent market share in the SCR segment with its tie-up with China based Maipu for its routing product few months back. 

"But by 2007 we expect to grab 10 percent of the SCR market share. Initially we were providing SCR solutions in piece meal, which constituted 47 percent of our revenue. Post tie up, it will grow to upto 67 percent," informed Singh. 

In yet another move, Dax is set to roll out Wi Max (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) by the end of next quarter. Though not yet legalized in India, Singh said that the company is ready with it since it does not want to be left behind in any area of networking. 

Wi Max, which is based on the new IEEE 802.16 standard, is said to answer all the bottlenecks of Wi-Fi or WLAN. "Though WLAN promises shared data rates of upto 11 MBPS but in reality it delivers only 4.5 M bit/sec. The outdoor distance covered by Wi-Fi is 20 kms, whereas Wi Max is a non line-of-sight technology, which counters the bottleneck of speed. Wi Max offers 70 MBPS of data transfer with an outdoor distance coverage of 35 miles," explained Singh. 

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