Recharge successful: back from home trip

25th morning 9.00 AM i landed back to Bangalore after 7 days of fully charged home trip to Lucknow and Delhi. HOLI was a blast and meeting with friends in Noida, Lucknow and Delhi was a great fun.
After 2 years I played Holi in Lucknow with 2 glass of bhang and lots of colors. This was very much required as last 2 years we friends were rocking Bangalore and I always believe in keeping a balance of north and south in my life.
Thats why when my battery goes down in south(work), I always recharge it by going north(home).

Convergence India '08 - New Delhi

The most awaited telecom event ( for me at least ) has finally happened in capital city. The 16th Convergence India 2008 was hosted on 19-21 march 2008 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
I am personally following this event from last 4 years ( that's how long I am into the telecom world) and I do every possible attempt to not to miss this grand event.
To me, the biggest attraction were Nokia-Seimens, Erricsson and Tejas Networks as they represent the key market dynamics. Overall market focus was on NGN (next-gen networks), 3G wireless and packet-based services.
It was a platform for hardware vendors ( networking & communication gears, OEMs, unified communications, optic-switches etc.), service providers (broadband, ethernet, VOIP etc. ) as well as for software vendors (network management).

The following market opportunities were identified:
India is the fastest growing telecom network in the world today and second largest in Asia. Year 2006-07 witnessed 66 % growth in networks. Mobile handset sales were nearly 100 million a year and PCs six million plus. In the next three years, the plans are:
* 500 million telephone connections.
* Of these at least 150 million will be in rural areas where farmer-entrepreneurs are changing the countryside.
* 40 million high speed Internet subscribers.
* 20 million broadband subscribers with 2MBPS bandwidth.
* 100,000 common service centers in villages.
* Wide Area data networks in 23 states.
* US $ 5.8 billion e-Governance programme.
* Millions of citizenship cards to be issued with biometric identification.
* Several networks in healthcare, education, research, videoconferencing facilities across the country,VoIP, VPN and IN (Intelligent Networking).

Shited Flat ...

Last weekend was kinda crazy but fun as I shifted my rented1BHK flat to Indiranagar; after living in the vicinity of Bannerghatta road for three years ( that's exactly the time since I am in Bangalore).

Although the flat is in an individual house in a street which is 10 meters inside from the posh main 80 feet road in the vicinity of HAL 2nd Stage. Most os the happening hang-outs like CCDs, PlanetM, Spencer and various restaurants are walking distance only.
The good thing is that my office would be just 4 km away.

The unpacking activity was kinda fun as compared to packing. Playing with boxes and markers finally proved worth and made my life easy.

Most of the things are fit in place and the house is ready for partying as soon as I get back from my HomeTrip on 25th Mar.

You can notice in the pics that the stuff seems pretty organized inspite of the fact that bachelors live in this flat [;-)].