The companies also announced the establishment of the Cisco Solution Centre at the Wipro Campus in Bangalore, India, which will develop and showcase new services and solutions, such as Cisco Unified Communications, that will take advantage of the network platform to help enterprise customers drive innovation and business growth.

Under the agreement, Cisco and Wipro will jointly develop and deliver new solutions that incorporate their intelligent-networking technology and unmatched services in business processes and IT. Wipro will offer solutions based on Cisco products and services on a global basis, with initial focus in India, Middle East and Africa regions. Cisco will also become the preferred networking partner for Wipro’s portfolio of services, including outsourcing, managed-services and other solutions. Wipro will invest in developing competencies in Cisco’s leading-edge products and services through its Cisco Solution Centre.

The companies will provide joint services and solutions that take advantage of the network as a platform. The joint offerings will incorporate Cisco’s advanced technologies for such areas as application networking services, data centre, security, telepresence, and unified communications, with Wipro’s industry-leading IT global service and business process models that help customers maximize their business performance. In the future, Cisco and Wipro will collaborate to develop innovative solutions that support specific vertical industry models such as health care, financial services, retail, real estate and transportation.

Now that Cisco is the global network platform and networking solutions partner for Wipro, Cisco is able to expand on its worldwide market leadership. Additionally, Cisco will be able to take advantage of Wipro’s world class services and business process re-engineering expertise to pursue new growth opportunities in the areas of remote services delivery.

The Cisco Solution Centre at the Wipro Campus in Bangalore, India is scheduled to be functional in November and will expedite the development of network-based IT solutions, test frameworks, and illustrate proof of concepts of IT and networking methodologies for clientspecific business processes.