Monday, August 28, 2000		IT Digest

Cisco

Cisco Systems is poised to bring the state-of-the-art convergence technology to companies planning to enter the domestic long-distance telephone market in India. The dynamic high-end IP-based technology from Cisco will offer the ability to provide innovative services.

Voice over IP technology allows telephones to place calls over IP-based networks by converting voice into digits. Apart from improving the quality of transmission, this technology will bring down the cost of service.

The multiprotocol label switching technology will pave way to quick implementation of network through intelligent tag switching capabilities that bundle identifiers that the router needs to read. Apart from being well equipped to cater to modern requirements, it also offers adequate scalability to accommodate future growth and needs.

Infinity

Infinity Venture Fund, India's first angel fund has invested Rs 3.5 crore in emecklai.com, an online global B2B portal providing information, analysis, decision support tools and online portfolio to customers.

emecklai.com has developed a suite of proprietary analytics, which have been extensively rested in a wide range of illiquid markets, including INR/USD, Indian interest rate swap and commodities like black pepper, soy oil, coffee, gold and all the LME metals.

The analytics enables customers to value assets/liabilities, measure volatility and risk, price derivatives and structured instruments and create a virtual infinity of hedge strategies, so that they can use these markets at efficiency levels usually seen in more developed markets like US Treasuries.

Real-time e-business

Computer Associates International has launched Neugentsii, the complete solution for building real-time intelligent e-business applications.

Neugentsii empowers businesses to quickly build and deploy intelligent components, enabling applications that adjust, predict and respond to e-business needs in real-time. By monitoring business processes, discovering relationships, detecting patterns and leaning the underlying principles that drive e-business, Neugentsii predicts the effects of change on future business results.

Neugentsi help build intelligent applications that enhance and optimise all aspects of a business, whether it is B2B, B2C or traditional back-end processing.

IBM

IBM has launched world's first fully integrated e-business database. The DB2 Universal Database Version 7.1 is a powerful database management product. It is the only database to fully integrate e-business, business intelligence and content management capabilities at one-third the price of Oracle. DB2 universal database enables companies to leverage the full of all their data with increased performance and broader application possibilities.

Tejas Networks

Entering the fast growing market for intelligent optical networking, Tejas Networks has been launched to pioneer the development of innovative intelligent optical networking product for the global market and to provide services for the emerging telecommunications market in the Asian sub-continent. Tejas is a unique technology start-up in India that will address the growing need for network equipment designed to handle high-capacity data and Internet traffic.

Quantum

Quantum Corporation's hard disk drive group has announced the new fireball lct20 - an innovative 20 GB per platter desktop storage solution for consumer and commercial end-user.

Using optimised mechanics and quiet drive technology, the fireball let20 generates 20 decibels of sound power at idle and less than 30 decibels in seek mode. QDT is engineered into the fireball-let platform using proprietary designing innovation and unique drive features.

PTC

PTC, a leading provider of collaborative product commerce solutions, announced a unique agreement with Cadence Design System Inc to support electronics industry requirements for enterprise-wide Internet-based collaborative management of product data.

The jointly developed Windchill-based solution will allow customers to access and manage printed circuit b board (PCB) data created with Cadence's Allegro and Concept HDL products through Windchill release 5.0.

Conexant

Conexant Systems has joined forces with Cisco Systems and Hughes Network Systems to implement a new industry-standard V.44 compression technology, which will speed data throughput by 20 per cent to 60 per cent when downloading web pages and other media contents.

Conexant and Cisco are jointly supporting the new V.92 dial-up modem standard, which significantly speeds connection and download transfer rates while adding the ability to receive and initiate phone calls during a dial-up modem session.

The new V.44 modem specification will offer end-users a significant performance improvement through faster downloads of HTML pages, delivering an important advancement for dial-up modem technology. V.44 is a compression standard that will supplant the earlier V.42bis technology, which helped to nearly quadruple the dial-up modem data transfer rate across the wire as compared to raw, uncompressed data rate.

Myinfotech

Myinfotech has launched India's first web site to totally focus on power electronics with its main emphasis on American Power Conversion products. Exclusive to APC products, the site includes product information on all APC products, special schemes floated by APC and Myinfotech, online registration of customer complaint form to escalate APC's replacement process, FAQ and trouble-shooting tips.

Computer Associates

Computer Associates International, the leading e-business solutions provider, said CA's Unicentre TNG is being used as the enterprise management platform to control the core infrastructure in the newly constructed Microsoft Partner Solutions centre in Redmond.

CA will also provide advanced network management services to demonstrate viable and secure environments for e-business opportunities and offer technical knowledge to implement and support customers' leading-edge data centre environments.

Bimaonline

Bimaonline.com, India's first insurance portal, has launched a premium calculator for life insurance policies.

It has a calculator for computing the premiums payable for all non-life insurance policies for individuals.

—R.Suryamurthy