D. Murali
These are days when any link with Satyam merits a second look, and a closer one. But this is a positive story, about how the first commercial dedicated satellite link of VSNL to be used by an Indian software company was of Satyam, as Dinesh C. Sharma recounts in ‘The Long Revolution: The birth and growth of India’s IT industry’ ( www.harpercollins.co.in).
In 1992, just a handful of 64 kbps (kilobits per second, a measure of bandwidth) circuits were in use, Sharma writes. A Hyderabad-based start-up, Satyam Computer Services, which had signed up its first major offshore customer in June 1991, applied to VSNL for a dedicated satellite link in August that year, he adds.
“Using this link, Satyam wanted to execute a re-engineering contract, worth $1 million, for John Deere Corporation by remotely working on Deere’s IBM mainframes located in Chicago.”
Read more at: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/01/17/stories/2009011750761800.htm
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