V.trip Group Visit to Sri Lanka and India: A Great Success for Business and Pleasure

The call was quick and the stakes were high, eFront was shortlisted for the eLearning bid of a SriLankan Airlines. The team comprising of George Kalfas, eFront Sales Manager and Sakis Papangelis, Technical Director, Epignosis was mobilized immediately. Taking into consideration the large number of requests for partnerships from neighboring India, made it logical to also visit this great country, as well.

Of course Solo Gateway, the flagship product of the group could not be missed out on a venture to an area where small businesses - the main target group of Solo - are counted in millions, so Georgios Glinos, Solo Gateway Sales Manager was to follow along.

Since there was little room for Solo to prepare for Sri Lanka, the team was initially split and while the eFront team were supporting their bid in the uproar of Colombo, Georgios visited Mumbai (Bombay), where he met with teams of Tata Communications a member of the Tata Group, as well as Reliance Globalcomm, a member of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Solo Strategy for India is to gain acces to the vast and ever-growing small business market of the country, both via retail channels as well as a value added product for the broadband product lines of ISPs.

The two teams joined up in N. Delhi, where the took the chance of a sunny Sunday to also pay a visit to one of India's marvels, the mausoleum of Taj Mahal.

The week started off with marathon meetings with local eFront partners Deeksha Systems and newly agreed C2 Workshop, as well as many other potential partners for Solo and/or eFront. Tuesday continued with meetings with @Soft Services that we had met in Patras as well as e-learning giant NIS Sparta, another member of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Tuesday evening was concluded with the celebration of Georgios's 35th birthday and then Wednesday was sightseeing day until we had to part with that charming and welcoming country.

The TIGER project awarded CELTIC-Gold

The TIGER PROJECT Receives CELTIC GOLD!

[21/1/2009]

The TIGER project ("Together IP, GMPLS and Ethernet Reconsidered"), a EUREKA-CELTIC international industrial cooperation project, in which Virtual Trip has participated through GSRT and recently successfully completed, has been awarded the gold CELTIC Excellence Award.

The TIGER (EU) project has been considered a very successful project by the CELTIC organization and its sequel, TIGER-2, has been strongly favoured and encouraged by CELTIC.

Virtual Trip has participated in the European consortium of the TIGER project as partner and work-package (WP4) leader, having contributed innovative network simulation and analysis tools and methods, incl. one conference paper publication. The consortium included partners such as Alcatel-Lucent, Orange - France Telecom, Nokia-Siemens, FORTH, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, RAD Data Communications, ENST, IBBT, etc.

The "TIGER Tool", an Approximate Mean Value Analysis Solver tool, has been presented in the 8th IASTED Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2009), in Innsbruck, Austria (16-18 Feb. 2009), by Dr. Fotis K. Liotopoulos, Director of Virtual Trip's RTD dept., who also co-chaired the "Algorithms" sessions of that conference.

The "TIGER Tool" is a unique and very flexible, high-level performance analysis tool, which can be used for the design and sizing of large Metropolitan Ethernet networks, consisting of several thousands of network nodes and millions of customer services.

The tool is highly parametric and solves very complex, closed, fixed-queueing network models of large metropolitan networks in only a few seconds!

Virtual Trip Spain S.L. materialized!

In the end of January Vangelis Zeginoglou and Dimitris Tsigos visited Spain once more and have completed the process of the official establishment of Virtual Trip Spain S.L.! Mr. Andrew Hughes, a very experienced consultant in the fields of marketing and telecommunications honors us undertaking the role of Country Manager in Virtual Trip Spain S.L.

Virtual Trip Group office in Madrid is the first of the "antenna offices" that we plan to establish around the globe trying to analyze local markets, adjust the marketing mix of our products to meet local requirements and, over all, to select the appropriate value-added resellers.

The Madrid office is of strategic importance both for the Iberian peninsula and for the Latin American countries. Beyond these very interesting territories, which do offer huge growth potential, Virtual Trip Spain S.L. will also be responsible for the emerging markets of Northern Africa.

The Virtual Trip Group has already established partnerships in Spain with prestigious companies such as Cystelcom and Dialcom. In the first steps of the office focus will be to promoting eFront, Solo and mVision while the rest of the Group products are going to be adjusted to the needs of its target market.

The establishment of Virtual Trip Spain S.L. is the first step to the international expansion of our Group, a strategic choice for achieving our vision: to materialize innovation.

Virtual Trip Group celebrates the traditional cake for 2009

On February 4th, the people of Virtual Trip Group gathered to celebrate the traditional 

greek cake for the New Year. 

The venue was the cosy restaurant "Mushrooms" (Μανιτάρια) which as expected specializes

in mushroom cuisine in all its forms. Salad with mushrooms, mushrooms on the pan, boiled mushrooms, and 

shrimp with mushrooms were some of the dishes served. 

Some photos from the event:

The pie

Katerina (HR)

Dimitris (CEO)

Eating and drinking 

Periklis (Infomap) and John (Solo)

Overall a very pleasant night.

Best wishes for the new year!