Wipro Infotech group, the frontrunners among the country's information technology firms, is planning to launch its plug-and-play CD-ROM server in the United States. The company is in talks with a US company for this purpose, said
Launched in October last, the server supported ethernet options and provided multiple clients simultaneous access to a maximum of 14 CD-ROM drivers without any additional hardware or agent software on user machines.
The server had applications in libraries, finance and manufacturing companies, software developers, hospitals and multimedia developers could be used as a standalone product or an original equipment for other products.
President of technology divisions and chief technology officer of global R&D division Sridhar Mitta said efforts were being made to market the technology elsewhere in the world.
The technology for plug-and-use CD-ROM server, which was transferred to a Taiwanese company, is shortly entering the production phase after the marketing phase in which the foreign producer had test-marketed over 100 servers. The intellectual property rights rested with the global R&D divison of Wipro Infotech.
Mitta said the division apart from churning outs its own products would also continue working for its major international customers like Tandem, Stratacom/Cisco, Novell and Intel. During the next five years, the company would focus on networking, both hardware and software. It was already taken up certain projects and was in advanced stage of developing a prototype of an web-based network management system.
The unique system which was being developed by only a few companies in the world was likely to have its market launch in march this year. The division was also working on core logics and communications.
