DNS - Proxim Solutions Selected for Tax Collection and eGovernment Initiatives by Nagpur City Corp., India

Proxim Wireless (News - Alert) Corporation a provider of complete indoor and outdoor wireless broadband ecosystems announced that Vidarbha Infotech Pvt. Ltd. has selected Proxim’s point-to- multipoint or PtMP solutions.

The PtMP solutions will be used to provide a city-wide wireless network for enabling automated tax collection and for implementing eGovernment initiatives in the city of Nagpur in Central India. Vidarbha Infotech or VIPL is a telecom and IT solutions provider which used Proxim’s Tsunami MP.11 5054 radios and ProximVision ES central management system to connect over 34 locations throughout Nagpur.

VIPL was awarded the contract by Nagpur Municipal Corporation for connecting 18 octroi or local tax collection stations located at the different entry points to the city of Nagpur. Besides connection to 10 zonal offices and six other locations, including data centers will be provided.

In a release Prashant Ugemuge, managing director of VIPL, Nagpur said, “In addition to the scope of the network and number of locations that needed to be connected, the other challenge was that we needed to run two distinct applications, tax collection and eGovernment portals separately on the same network.”

“Proxim’s solutions provided exceptional performance, as well as the ability to easily configure VLANs for the different applications,” Ugemuge added.

Proxim wireless network provides critical backbone connectivity for NMC’s online octroi tax collection system. However the critical requirement is the assurance that the entire network would stay up and running even in the case of a base station failure.

Also it is important to facilitate NMC’s eGovernment portals in the same network, and to have both applications running on separate VLANs, said Proxim sources.

Ugemuge added that Proxim Wireless’s optimized solution, also provided network design support and helped set up the entire network with VLAN capabilities and redundancy. The ProximVision ES management system helps monitor and manage the performance of the entire network from a single location.

Nishchal Batra, Vice President of Sales, Asia, ANZ and Middle East, Proxim Wireless said, “Proxim Wireless specializes in the ability to provide high-performance, mission-critical indoor and outdoor wireless networks, regardless of the size of the coverage area.”

Batra added that the Proxim solution will be able to offer an extremely reliable system that can handle multiple applications with redundancy on a single network as is required by VIPL and NMC.