TELECOM EQUIPMENT/INFRASTRUCTURE INTELLIGENT ENERGY TO POWER TOWER SITES OF MICROQUAL Deepali Gupta, Mumbai The Economic Times Telecom

infrastructure provider Microqual Techno and UK-based fuel-cell maker Intelligent Energy have teamed up to offer tower sites that will come with power generation units to help telecom operators run their network equipment without depending on costlier diesel, the companies said. Mumbai-based Microqual had overcome competition from Viom Networks to win access to state-run Power Grid Corporation's 12,200 power-transmission towers in four states to mount telecom equipment. The rentals for these towers would be 20-30% cheaper than the prevailing market rate, Microqual chief Mahesh Chowdhury said. Telecom tower rentals typically range from Rs 15,000-30,000 a month per slot. Intelligent Energy, which makes hydrogen fuel cells, will set up modules to generate power on all Microqual towers and maintain their management. Microqual has to find tenants for the towers. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. People familiar with the deal said Intelligent Energy made an upfront payment to Microqual.

KERALA ADOPTS DOT TOWER GUIDELINES Chennai The Asian Age With most states waging a tug-of-war in drafting a new policy governing installation of mobile towers, the Kerala government decision to accept the Central guidelines in totality has come as a welcome change for most telecom operators. (Page 17)

INT/E-COMM GOVT PROPOSES TO SET UP BOTNET CLEANING CENTRE Shauvik Ghosh & Moulishree Srivastava, New Delhi Mint Faced with the massive increase in botnet infections across Internet-enabled devices in the country, the government has proposed a botnet cleaning centre at a cost of around Rs. 50 crore, as part of the overall national cyber security policy that was released in July last year. Cert -in (Indian Computer emergency response team) tracked around 26,000 infected systems in 2007, and over four million infections were tracked so far during the year 2013. The complexity and reach of malware is also increasing with botnets being reported on mobile phone platforms as well, a note prepared by the communications ministry and Cert-In for the standing finance committee, reviewed by Mint said. The main driver for the increase in the infections has been attributed to the increase in Internet penetration in the country, and the problem could end up damaging the reputation of the Indian ICT sector.

NETWORKING ENTERPRISE IT CAN NOW WORK LIKE GOOGLES DATACENTRE Sujit John The Times of India (Bangalore edition) Martin Casado co-founded Nicira in 2007 when he was a PhD student at Stanford. Five years later, in July 2012, it was acquired by VMware for $1.2 billion. Nicira redefined computer networks, making them programmable and thus enabling greater efficiency and innovation in datacentres. Casado, now the chief

networking architect at VMware, and Steve Mullany, then CEO of Nicira and now SVP of the networking and security business unit of VMware, spoke on company plan. Edited excerpts: Is the Indian market a focus for you? We are just starting, The most mature market right now is the United States, followed by Japan, and then Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and Brazil. The Indian market is maybe two or three years behind the US, roughly the same place as say China.