3Com (News - Alert) Corp. has announced that its new partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (News - Alert), or “TCS,” resulted in it being selected for the Andhra Pradesh State Wide Area Network, or “APSWAN,” project.

 

The deal calls on 3Com to 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.

 

TCS is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization. Earlier this year in September, the Andhra Pradesh government awarded the company one of India’s largest State Wide Area Network, or “SWAN,” project on a five year Build, Own, Operate and Transfer, or “BOOT,” model.

 

The project is expected to enable the state government to start and run various projects for citizen services to boost G2G and G2C efficiencies, helping transform the e-governance structure.

 

Tanmoy Chakrabarty, vice president and head government ISU at TCS, said that the network is an important aspect in the ambitious project, which would connect various government offices with common service centers.

 

“It is on this network various e-government initiatives would ride and hence is very critical to the overall project,” he added.

 

With 3Com’s network, state government expects to communicate and conference across all government offices over voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). Additionally, applications covering transport, healthcare, education and municipality are also expected to operate on this e-governance network backbone that is scheduled to be rolled out within 12 months.

 

“3Com’s leadership in secure and high-performance networking at substantially lower cost helped secure this deal, which will bring significant project deployment savings to TCS,” Manoj Kanodia, CEO at Inspira Enterprise India, 3Com’s exclusive master distributor in India, said.

 

The company has a strong foothold in the education and government verticals across the world, said Rose Chen, vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific at 3Com, adding that this win with TCS will help the company carry its mission further in India.