MUMBAI: Cisco-owned NDS has launched its new R&D campus in Bangalore as it reaches 12 years of operations in India.

The new campus is NDS’ largest R&D facility and will support development for nearly 50 per cent of the company’s service provider customers around the world.

Spread across 330,000 sq. ft, the state-of-the-art facilities R&D campus is capable of scaling up from its current 2,100 skilled technical and development employees.

The new R&D campus was inaugurated by Cisco’s Service Provider Video Technology Group SVP and GM Jesper Andersen.

While the Bangalore Centre supports innovative development worldwide, the R&D centre in India also strives to provide locally-developed solutions and set-top-box integration services specifically for the Indian market, the company said in a statement.

Solutions developed locally in Bangalore enable the launch of digital platforms with a full roadmap of features and functionality for small and medium-sized operators looking to digitalize their service ahead of the deadlines in the mandate, including hosted solutions to enable a fully managed service that reduces upfront software, hardware and integration cost.

The NDS R&D centre in Bangalore plays a key role in the company’s global development activity, with full product management and product ownership. The centre provides support for market-leading operators worldwide including Astro (Malaysia), BSkyB (UK), CCTV (China), DIRECTV (US) and Sky Italia (Italy) to name but a few.