Bharti Airtel, Cisco form strategic business alliance

Bharti Airtel and Cisco have announced in a 'pan-India announcement that the two have signed an agreement to form a strategic business alliance to help drive growth for Indian enterprises -- large enterprises as well as SMEs.

The alliance will combine the strengths of Airtel's network service provider leadership and Cisco's Internet Protocol (IP) technologies and expertise to work together to create and sell in a phased manner a set of unique products and services including managed data services, hosted unified communications, connected branch services and Cisco TelePresence. This alliance is to enable Indian enterprises to do a better business with efficient communications. The duo will provide flexible models in terms of both technologies and cost for customers.