U.S. based carrier ethernet solutions firm Overture has announced that it is exploring growth opportunities for its Bangalore Engineering Center as part of the company’s ongoing global expansion plans. The company projects substantial growth in 2014.
Overture entered the Indian market in May 2013 and since has been staffing the Bangalore development center with engineers to create carrier ethernet and network virtualization solutions for customers who are into providing communications services.
Prayson Pate, Chief Technology Officer, Overture, said, “Our aim is to augment the growth process of the India development facility located in the IT city of Bangalore and we plan to continue expanding our workforce and have significant investment plans in place for India”.
He added, “Our Bangalore centre is evolving as an essential component of our organization’s mission and plays a key role in the overall growth. To continue to stay at the forefront of technology-based innovation, it is important to recruit talented engineers with skill sets that will drive our Carrier Ethernet and network virtualization solutions forward.”
Among the global industry players, Overture offers the only complete range of carrier ethernet 2.0 solutions for the metro service edge. The company’s Ensemble Open Service Architecture (OSA) leverages the benefits of cloud, virtualization technologies and carrier ethernet to help accelerate service innovation and reduce costs.
Overture solutions leverage fiber, existing copper and TDM infrastructures along with wholesale E-Access to increase the market reach for high performance business services, cloud connectivity, as well as mobile and broadband backhaul applications. Ensemble OSA, is the industry’s first open architecture to streamline the processes of service creation, activation and assurance for service providers and network operators.
The Bangalore development center is headed by Sunil Menon, Vice President and General Manager of Overture’s India operation. Menon said, “We are proud to have created a center of excellence for Overture here in India. We have already made major contributions to the company’s portfolio, and we are becoming more strategic every day. The local engineering teams are involved in the entire product development lifecycle of current as well as next generation products and solutions.”
Mike Aquino, CEO, Overture Networks will be visiting the Bangalore development center in February 2014.