Cisco to tap USD 2 billion Indian digital education biz

Realising the need to skill students in disruptive technologies like Big Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyber security, Cisco on Thursday announced a “Blueprint for Digital Education.” 

The blueprint will allow colleges and universities to enable students to learn anywhere with “Cisco Connected Classroom” solutions which use the Cisco “Digital Network Architecture” (Cisco DNA) and collaboration solutions such as “WebEx” online meetings and Cisco “Spark” all-in-one communications solution. 

Currently the Indian education industry at $97.8 billion and is set to grow to about $140 billion by 2020. “Education is at the heart of new digital economy and the digital learning solutions’ market in India is currently at $2 billion and outside the US, India is the largest digital education industry,” Sudhir Nayar, MD, Commercial Sales, Cisco India and SAARC, told reporters here.