Midas Communication Technologies Pvt' Ltd' Chennai, India

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MidasCommunication Technologies Pvt.
Ltd.Chennai, India

• Shirish B Purohit
• CEO
• Midas Communication Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
• India

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Agenda

• About Midas
• Market Opportunities
• What we found at IITM
• Some suggestions on the way forward

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Midas
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Foundation
250 person RD Team Long term collaborative RD
with IIT-M l Founded in 1994 by IIT Madras alumni
DECT, GSM, WiMAX, Ethernet, Routing, VoIP 300M
Products shipped 25 Countries - Over 1 million
end users
IP Portfolio Network protocols Management
Systems Reconfigurable MSC-BSC-BTS-ST
architectures Extensible ASICs
November 19, 2009
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Global
Wireless, DSL, Metro Ethernet
25 countries, 3.5 mil Ports
November 19, 2009
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Partners Alliances
Welltek
November 19, 2009
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Indian Products companiesOpportunities
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Jim Harris in The Learning Paradox

• 10 years from now, 80 of the business activity
  will be based on technologies that do not exist
  today
• -Jim Harris in the Learning Paradox
• A great Challenge for business leaders
• A great opportunity for new entrepreneurs

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The Indian Advantage

• Engineering / Management Competencies
• Scientific mind
• Knowledge based labour pool
• India adds 3,00,000 science / engineering /
  Management graduates every year
• Large home market
• That reflects the needs of 100 countries ( 2
  Billion Population)
• Economy of scale can be leveraged to be
  competitive

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Advantage India

• Our Designers are groomed in our users
  environment
• We understand our customers better than others
• Service requirements
• Price points
• We have special needs in India
• socio-economic uniqueness
• operating environment
• infrastructure realities
• These specials match with a billion people
  outside India
• With much lesser fine tuning, than when
  technologies are conceived in the West
• We can get under the skin of our customers with
  ease

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What do we need to do additionally ?

• Supplement engineering training with attitudinal
  training
• Communicate the importance of results and
  performance as the only lasting value
• Results and performance in the eyes of end user

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To Conclude

• India has an opportunity to be a leader in the
  new markets
• With its technology and management expertise
• economies of scale with the large home market
• The onus is on the Indian professionals to grab
  this opportunity

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What we found at IITM
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Our Seed IIT Madras

• 1994
• corDECT A DECT based Voice WLL
• 1996
• DIAS A telephone line based proprietary DSL
• 2000
• ADSL 2, ULC DSL Solutions for Copper Lines
• 2004
• Citius, Catius, ETTH Broadband on CATV Cable
  and Metro-Ethernet
• 2005
• LightGSM A light and Soft GSM solution for
  rural
• SACS Satellite based Sparse Area Communication
  System
• 2006
• Broadband corDECT WLL providing Voice, 512Kbps
  Data, FAX
• 2008
• NG corDECT WLL providing Voice, 2Mbps, FAX
• SNAP A WiMax solution
• 20 of Midas workforce engages in new projects at
  IIT-Madras always

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Midas Wireless Platform Evolution
10Mhz, 3 BTS 50Mbps, 21 upto 2 Mbps to users 400
voice subs
50 Mbps
ETSI compliant DECT -MCTDMA
10Mhz, 8 BTS 24Mbps, 21 upto 1 Mbps to users 400
voice subs
24 Mbps
Mobile WiMax compliant IEEE 802.16 OFDMA
ETSI compliant DECT -MCTDMA
10Mhz, 8 BTS 14.1 Mbps, 43 upto 512kbps to
users 400 voice subs
14 Mbps
64 QAM in MC-TDMA
ETSI compliant DECT -MCTDMA
10Mhz, 8 BTS 6Mbps, 11 upto 64kbps to users 400
Voice subs
Platform supporting WiMax and 3G corDECT
services
6 Mbps
Multi-level Modulation
ETSI compliant DECT -MCTDMA
10 Mhz, 8 BTS 400 voicesubs
Current BBcorDECT System
IP overlay
voice
4G
3G
2G
1G
2.5G
2008
2009
2001
2006
1998
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What we found in IIT-M

• Constant Watchful guidance of project ideas
• Environment that allows learning and grooming
• Multi-domain expertise
• Electronics, Computing, Communication
• Nothing is Impossible
• Everything is seen as a problem that needs to be
  solved
• Pressure on Definition / standardisation

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Some suggestions on the way forward
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A model for Industry-IIT Collaboration

• Continuous Collaboration rather than on demand
  collaboration
• IITs are places to brew technology / product
  ideas 247
• Collaboration not a Lab funding exercise
• Labs to be aligned, steered and directed towards
  larger business visions of companies
• Continuous Project ideas that would realize
  larger business visions
• Invest the power of Idea
• Businesses need to provide ideas to IIT Labs
• IIT is more than people, equipments and
  infrastructure
• It is the ability of people to crystallize ideas
  for meaningful products and services

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Suggestions for Improvement

• Multi domain collaboration cutting across
  departments
• World class Technologies / Products need multiple
  domain expertise
• Electronics, Computing, Mechanical, Material
  sciences
• Mentor Pools
• Expertise of Alumni need to be brought into
  IIT-Labs through mentor pools
• Technical, Commercial, Financial mentoring to
  help start-ups and businesses as well
• Expert Panels/Consultancy
• Multi-domain expertise groups for knowledge
  sharing and consulting on complex technical,
  techno-commercial issues
• Handy for several IIT incubated businesses and
  others as well

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• Thanks for your time and patience
• For more info
• shirish_at_midascomm.com
• www.midascomm.com