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The company recently completed work as a consultant with one of the
airports and helped design its security and overall design layout. Datacraft
has put in place IP telephony-based IT infrastructure for the Hong Kong
and Bangkok airports with the basic infrastructure cost alone amounting to
about $10 million (about Rs 40 crore).. With the entry of private players in
the airports space, the Government is striving for the best infrastructure.
Internet Protocol (IP) telephony enables voice communication over the
Internet. Here, voice and data exist on one network and can be centrally
maintained. Instead of separate, multi-line phones, beside a PC at each
desk, IP telephony allows software on the PC to serve as a soft phone.
Unlike telephone hardware, this can be easily upgraded and enhanced,
without work disruption, extra equipment cost or even visiting each desk
for manual installation. All end points in a particular place can be made IPenabled
and connected on to one system. For an airport, these include
security cameras and their network, flight details and announcements,
baggage check-in, free WiFi ports and telephone services for passengers
and ground service functions of airlines. The company plans to add about
250 employees this year to its existing 800 in India and 5-6 local business
partners. Current partners in India include Cicso and Microsoft. It expects
to total revenues to cross $650 million thereby registering a compounded
annual growth rate of over 20 per cent.
RAILWAYS
Agartala gets rail connectivity
It's a dream come true for the people of Tripura, with the entry of the first
railway engine of the Northeast Frontier Railways to Agartala station
during a trial run for the 67 km long Agartala-Ambash rail line on 29 th
June. By the end of September this year, after the clearance of railway
security board, passenger and goods trains are expected to run. People
have high hopes with the train as they believe that rail line along with it will
bring industries with it and thus the available resources of the state shall
be utilized. It will not only give revenue to the state but also create new
avenues of employment in this landlocked state. Moreover, with better
connectivity people can now move to other parts of the state with very
minimal fare and prices of daily commodity shall also go down. In
construction of the line that took 15 years to build more that one hundred
workers had lost their lives mainly due to insurgency and many more in
malaria. Earlier, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh had declared the
railway link in Tripura as a national project and more connections are
planned. Presently, Indian Railways operate at least 11,000 trains every
day covering 63,465km (39,435 miles) across the length and breadth of
the country, making it one of the world's largest rail networks.
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