Reliance to launch biz internet services for SMEs in 10 cities

BANGALORE: Reliance Communications on Wednesday announced plans to roll out business internet services for small and medium enterprises in top ten cities and 200-odd tier-II cities in India.

The telecom service provider has joined hands with networking firm Cisco to provide the services, which were launched in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Reliance Communication will use Cisco's carrier grade Ethernet solution as part of its IP infrastructure for the joint commercial service offering, Reliance Communications President and CEO (Enterprise Business) Prakash Bajpai said.

"It will be rolled out in top ten cities in the next two months, and 200-odd tier-II cities thereafter," he said.

The solution by Cisco will provide a scalable and manageable connectivity with the required quality of service levels, Cisco Senior Vice-President (Commercial) for India and SAARC operations Pramodh Menon said.

The services bundled suite includes hi-speed broadband access, anti virus suite, business e-mail packages, domain name service, firewall and local area network and wide area network.

Bajpai said the launch is the first step in Reliance's endeavour to provide tailor-made package for SME market.