Hyderabad: 3Com Corporation, the US-based $699-million (around Rs3203.5 crore) global leader in networking products and solutions, has opened its India research and development centre in partnership with Mars Telecom in Hyderabad.

The 3Com director, Mohan Sayani, would head the new R&D centre.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, the 3Com senior director, Voice Engineering, Rich Boule, said the centre would complement 3Com's R&D facilities in the US, UK and Taiwan. It would be a centre of excellence in software development for 3Com's line of VoIP products and would support future growth into wireless, switching and network management.

"The Mars Telecom managing director, Ramesh Sundaresan, said his company would provide highly competent resources.

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