{"id":985932,"date":"2026-01-17T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985932"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:52:56","slug":"cisco-emerges-as-qualified-oem-for-kswan-3-0-amid-allegations-of-irregularities-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/cisco-emerges-as-qualified-oem-for-kswan-3-0-amid-allegations-of-irregularities-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco emerges as qualified OEM for KSWAN 3.0 amid allegations of irregularities: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre for e-Governance (CeG) has attracted allegations of irregularities and potential favoritism by tailoring specifications that suit a single original equipment manufacturer (OEM) \u2013 American Cisco Systems \u2013 for the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) upgrade programme, according to a report by The New Indian Express published on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>CeG is an autonomous and independent body established for conceptualising, implementing, and monitoring various e-Governance initiatives in Karnataka, including the ambitious state-wide connectivity project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre for e-Governance (CeG) has attracted allegations of irregularities and potential favoritism by tailoring specifications that suit a single original equipment manufacturer (OEM) \u2013 American Cisco Systems \u2013 for the Karnataka State Wide Area Network (KSWAN) upgrade programme, according to a report by The New Indian Express published on Friday. CeG is an autonomous and independent body established for conceptualising, implementing, and monitoring various e-Governance initiatives in Karnataka, including the ambitious state-wide connectivity project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}