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Cisco teams up with IIT-Roorkee on mobile agent research
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Monday, 11 September 2006, 19:30 IST
MUMBAI: Cisco Systems, supplier of networking equipment & network management for the Internet, announced its collaboration with IIT-Roorkee, one of the best technological institutions in the world, for research on mobile agent technology.
Cisco is understood to set up state of the art networking infrastructure to aid research and development on mobile agents in the wide area network (WAN) and wireless environments as a part of its collaboration.
Kumkum Garg, Professor of Computing and Head ISC, IIT Roorkee said, Mobile agents are used for appliances such as meeting-scheduler and intrusion detection. Ciscos networking infrastructure would extend the scope of s our research deliver its benefits beyond the LAN (Local Area Network) environment.
Mobile agent technology is a rising paradigm that will lead to flawless information presentation, organization and efficient retrieval from the Internet.
The networking infrastructure would permit students and faculty to carry out mobile agent research in Wide Area Network (WAN) and wireless settings, which will aid in developing the study environment for networking security protocols and architecture. Currently, these studies are being done in a LAN setting, which limits their applicability in networking research.
Cisco has always been committed to the advancement of higher education and cutting edge research in India. Our collaboration with IIT Roorkee for the development of mobile agents technology is another step in this direction, Jangoo Dalal, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems said.