3Com, TCS To Build Andhra Pradesh SWAN

3Com has been selected for the Andhra Pradesh State Wide Area Network (APSWAN) project. Under this deal, 3Com will provide high-end enterprise switching, routing and security solutions for the project that will connect 23 district offices in the state to increase efficiency in government operations.

In September 2009, the Andhra Pradesh government awarded TCS the country’s largest State Wide Area Network (SWAN) project on a five year Build, Own, Operate, and Transfer (BOOT) model. The project will enable the state government to start and run various projects for citizen services to boost G2G and G2C efficiencies that will help transform the e-governance structure.

3Com’s new partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) resulted in it being selected for the deployment of this project.

"We have a strong foothold in the education and government verticals across the world and this win with TCS will help us carry our mission further in India," said Rose Chen, Vice President and General Manager, 3Com Asia Pacific.

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"We are happy to partner 3Com for this prestigious project. The network is an important aspect in this ambitious project, which would connect various government offices with common service centres. It is on this network that various e-government initiatives would ride and hence, is very critical to the overall project," said Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Vice President and Head Government ISU, TCS.

3Com’s network will enable the state government to communicate and conference across all government offices over VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), which will reduce communication costs.

Applications covering transport, healthcare, education and municipality will also operate on this e-governance network backbone, which is scheduled to be rolled out within 12 months.