• Techgenstia gets most of the enquiries from government agencies, including the Middle East
• With patent-pending communication components like Software MCUs, Protocol Gateways, SFUs and Endpoints among others, the firm is expected to increase its workforce by ten times within the next six months.

Bengaluru: Techgentsia, the Kerala-based IT firm that emerged as a frontrunner in India for developing a secure on-prem solution for enterprise video conferencing solution, is expanding its workforce to spread wings abroad and be a strong competitor to Zoom.

Vconsol, the video conferencing solution of Techgentsia, is currently being deployed at government organisations in India and will be opened to the public soon but through a paid model.

Techgentsia emerged as the winner of the “Grand Innovation Challenge” conducted by the Indian government in search of a homemade alternative to Zoom.

Joy Sebastian, the CEO of Techgentsia Software Technologies, speaking to TechChannel News said its roadmap to the future has changed ever since it won the competition.

“We have transformed from a research and development firm to helping clients to enhance their products and developing our own products,” he said.

Road ahead looks very promising

Techgentsia today has several patent-pending communication components like software MCUs, protocol gateways, SFUs and endpoints among others.

“We have about 63 engineers working with us today and are hiring more. We are expecting the numbers to grow to about 1,000 soon,” he added.

The company has been getting a lot of enquiries and the road ahead looks very promising, he says.

“Enquiries are coming from across the world, mostly from governments, including the Middle East,” says Sebastian.

Techgentsia  has been mainly providing software assistance to its clientele across the US and Europe, assisting with software-based solutions.

“We specialise in video conferencing products and solutions. When we heard about the Indian competition, we thought of giving it a try as this is what we have been doing for years, says Sebastian.

Techgentsia beat 2,000 other competitors, including major tech firms such as HCL.

The advantage of Vconsol, he says, is that it provides end-to-end AES-256 GCM encryption, which is practically unbreakable by brute force based on current computing power, making it the strongest encryption standard.

The Vconsol solution follows a compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated integer-DCT coding provides good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than most of the other standards.

It offers a superior video quality of up to 1080p Full HD and can auto adjust the video quality at the client-side, based on client’s bandwidth conditions.

The audio and video streams from all the participants get collected and mixed in the server-side and sent back to the participants as a single stream for enhanced performance and reliability.

“Our product fits perfectly into government institutions, which already have invested in creating infrastructure to handle on-prim storage and own cloud storage facilities. They have also invested heavily into installing legacy devices that support the software solution that we provide,” he said.

The solution will soon be made available to other corporates and organisations.

Sebastian said that a free video-conferencing facility for individual users, such as Zoom and Google Meet, may not be immediately on the card. 

“We are working on a solution aimed at educational institutions. It will be released in a phased manner, ” says Sebastian, the son of a fisherman, who has now become an inspiration to many across the state of Kerala.

Techgentsia is currently based out of the picturesque Alappuzha district, more known for its houseboats and backwaters.