Cisco sets up board to tap Digital India opportunities

BENGALURU: Networking major Cisco has set up an advisory board, comprising five industry leaders, to vet strategic matters and help the company tap new business opportunities in Digital India.

The advisory board will comprise Shobana Kamineni, Executive Vice Chairman, Apollo Hospitals, Rajiv Kumar, Former Director General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), GK Pillai, Former Home Secretary, Commerce Secretary, Government of India, Kiran Karnik, Former President, NASSCOM, and R Seshasayee, Executive Vice Chairman, Ashok Leyland.

Anil Menon, President, Smart+Connected Communities and Deputy Chief Globalisation Officer, Cisco will serve as the chairman of the India Advisory Board. The India Advisory Board will offer Cisco executives counsel on future investments for country transformation and guide the company in addressing customer business priorities, a statement said.

Cisco announced that a series of initiatives launched in 2014, to enable country transformation and smart cities, have progressed to the next stage of implementation.

The network infrastructure of the ‘IoT Innovation Hub’ set up in Bengaluru in association with the Electronic City Industrial Association (ELCIA) is ready and Electronic System Design & Manufacturing (ESDM) companies including many start-ups have begun development and testing and production of electronic product prototypes for an IoT enabled smart city environment.

Cisco in association with ELCIA is providing the infrastructure and expertise required to develop IoE solutions and products like smart lighting, environmental sensing, video analytics based safety and surveillance system, license plate recognition, no-parking violation and wrong lane detection among others.