New Delhi, April 28, 200

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) announced four new development products at the ELITEX (Electronics & Information Technology Exposition) 2003 Exhibition-cum-Seminar being held during April 28-29, 2003 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India. The products were launched by the Hon'ble Minister of Disinvestment and Communications & Information Technology in the presence of Dr. R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government of India and Shri. Rajeeva Ratna Shah, Secretary, Department of Information Technology. The four products are the first to be launched following the recent merger of the erstwhile scientific societies ER&DCI, CEDTI (Mohali) and NCST of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), with C-DAC. The products being launched are C-Crypto, Nashir, D-View and the Mobile Digital Library.

C-DAC's Crypto (C-Crypto) - a cryptographic software for network security, supports features of confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation in a virtual private network, as well as offers multiplatform support on Linux and Windows. It conforms to industry standard cryptographic algorithms and can be integrated with other proprietary algorithms. The software is also of special relevance to the OEMs as it can be integrated into their products and solutions.

C-DAC's Nashir - a word processing and publishing software for Urdu, Sindhi and Kashmiri caters to the scripts written from right to left, and is packed with features like Urdu spell checker, Hindi-Urdu transliteration, table and column layouts, support for Nastaliq and Naskh scripts with calligraphic fonts, keyboard shortcuts, search and replace, text formatting tools and support for UNICODE. Nashir's versatility lies in the fact that it allows use of multiple languages simultaneously, that is one can use Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Arabic and English text, all in one text frame. It also supports object linking and embedding (OLE).

Another product being launched at ELITEX is the D-View, a digital set top box developed indigenously at C-DAC. With the Conditional Access System (CAS) becoming mandatory at the four metros of the country from 14th July onwards, it couldn't have come at a better time. The D-View enables viewers to access a wide range of services from Analog and Digital Television, Internet, Video on Demand and VOIP by decoding the free to air as well as scrambled signals from the three modes of transmission, viz. terrestrial, satellite and cable.

To enable students and other beneficiaries across a large geographic region to have access to books of their interest, C-DAC is also launching a Mobile Digital Library. The library is equipped with a V-SAT and a PC desktop, with searching and indexing capability and a printing facility. The mobile library is connected to a digital library server at the C-DAC facility at Noida, which in turn allows users access to the web, and also connectivity to other digital libraries.

Speaking on the occasion, Shri. R.K. Arora, Former Executive Director, C-DAC, said that the four new products "exemplifies C-DAC'S commitment to the society, by following a focused and well-defined path towards the development of advanced information technology to address the country's needs".

Also on display, are a range of products showcasing the R&D accomplishments of C-DAC as well as its forays into the different segments of Information Technology such as multilingual technologies, embedded systems and broadband, image processing and multimedia, GIS applications, eGovernance and healthcare solutions.

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