Life @ Pune

Hmmm.. it was tough... This is the second time am visiting Pune. First one was on Nov 2nd 2007 and this time it was March 3rd 2008. It was a deputation from Wipro at Idea Cellular Customer site. Stay was excellent and very pleasing. Was there in a 5 star service appartments. But hardly I could enjoy those facilities 'coz most of the time I was there @ Idea data center. This is one of the biggest project/solution implementation for Cisco in link with IBM all over Asia. Solution is called Cisco Voice Portal alias CVP. There were multiple issues with the Cisco IOS gateways for which I had been asked to be at site for understanding/analysing and reproducing the issue. First time it was slightly tough for me 'coz I was handling such a big project first time and there are many engineers awaiting for the test results from my side to fix. This time the situation was more worse. Idea was about to cancel the project. But being at site, I was able to dig out many vital clues on the issues and could give proper results to be inhouse team which was appreciated at the BU group head level, both from Cisco/Wipro. Both the times I could work with a very co-operative team in Idea. This was really a great experience and exposure for me in my career.

:-( Couldn't visit any place in Pune. Ate vada pav, poha and all those marathi stuffs.