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A technology conference is organized by Building Industry Consulting Service International (BISCI) in association with Manufactures' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) on 7th December 2010 and 9th December 2010 in Bangalore and Mumbai respectively. In the view of drastic and constant changes in network infrastructure in recent years which has witnessed an intense escalation in bandwidth stringed along with an increasing demand for speed and more applications, memory and devices mind sharing amongst IT industry stalwarts is crucial. BISCI Technology Conference 2010 is designed to facilitate discussions and reviews on innovations in technological advancements — video centric applications, server virtualization, IP traffic, convergence etc.
The conference will congregate around 250 IT professionals in Bangalore and 200 in Mumbai across India. This forum shares knowledge on future ready trends, future proofing infrastructure, cabling trends in hospitality, intelligent-management tools, datacentres' glitch, lifecycle management of high speed IEEE, fiber optic connection in Datacentres and innovations in cable trays. Technological presentations and exhibitions will be held at Taj Residency in Bangalore and The Westin in Mumbai. “BICSI, a professional association supports information technology systems (ITS) industry. It provides information, education and knowledge assessment for individuals and companies in the ITS industry. We serve 23,000 ITS professionals across the globe and are active in nearly 90 countries. The conference will touch base on latest technological advancements in ITS sector and effectively deploying solutions.” briefed Dileep Kumar, Country Chair, BICSI India to Voice and Data.
BICSI overview
BICSI is a global association of the ITS volunteered professionals, it delivers critical products and services. It primarily focuses on four segments — conducts courses and offers credentialing programmes in installation and distribution design, organizes conferences, it has eight BICSI publications and provides professional registration programmes. Prominent courses comprise Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD), Registered Information Technology Professional (RITP), Electronic Safety and Security Specialist (ESS), Network Transport Systems Specialist (NTS), Outside Plant Specialist (OSP) and Wireless Design Specialist (WD). RCDD is the most elite of all courses. Qualifying in ITS Design fundamental course is mandatory.
“BICSI has around 100 registered members and 12 RCDD certified professionals in India who can work as independent consultants as well. Our course manual is revised once in every two or three years to keep abreast of latest innovations in the industry. We encourage our members to constantly upgrade knowledge and skills, hence a professional is expected to take up 45 Continuing Education Credit (CEC) sessions over a period of three years. BICSI India has emerged to be a district in near future.” said Dileep Kumar. “A two-day conference is scheduled on August 2011 which will match up to the international level. Our objective is to host the upcoming conference on international format. More international communities would be participating in 2011.” Dileep Kumar shared their future agenda on conference.
BICSI sustains better quality platform to ITS professionals. Till recently BICSI was working in tandem with organizations which sets standards for structured cabling system namely ANSI, EIA, TIA 568B but since 2010 it is one among the globally recognized associations which sets standards for Datacentres.
According to Sreelal Nellary, RCDD, Programme Manager IT, Cisco Systems (India) Pvt Ltd, “RCDD has international accreditation and it is globally accepted. With many multi national companies moving into India, RCDD qualification has opened doors to consultancy. It gives knowledge, database and lot of information on the industry. It has set standards. Today, in India we hardly have institutes offering technical education on this trend however the only one which is accessible is RCDD. RCDD qualification talks for itself and everyone are aware of the level of technical expertise that RCDD can extend to a person."