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D-Link eyes VoIP market

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DQC Bureau
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D-Link India Ltd, a joint venture between D-Link Corporation and Indian promoters, is preparing to enter the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market "as soon as it is legalized", according to its marketing manager, Anand C Mehta.



D-Link believes that VoIP would have a bigger market than the existing telecom market. It plans to showcase VoIP telephones, VoIP routers, VoIP-over-ADSL Gateways for SOHO, VoIP-over-ISDN Gateways for SOHO, VoIP Station Gateways for SOHO as well as VoIP Trunk Gateways for SOHO.



Currently, ISPs such as VSNL and MTNL do not allow the use of VoIP. However, customers will be able to make international calls over the Internet for the equivalent of seven cents or Rs 2.80 a minute, as and when VoIP becomes legal. According to Mehta, "Demand is expected to be phenomenal from both domestic as well as corporate sectors".



D-Link will introduce its VoIP telephone by December, while it is poised to launch a wireless product — the DWL 110 transceiver — for connecting computers to a LAN network by September.



At present it is in talks with both foreign and Indian companies for technology transfer agreements for VoIP routers, broadband and wireless access. Various aspects of these technologies are being researched at its R&D center in Goa.



D-Link is also investing Rs 1 crore in its B2B e-commerce project, says Mehta.

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