History of D-Link India Ltd.

YEAR EVENTS

1993 - The Comp. was incorporated on 31st March under the companies act, 1956 as Smart-Link Network Private Limited with original registered office at Goa for setting up a manufacturing unit, & renamed as D-Link [Indias] Private Limited on 29th March 1995 & became deemed Public Limited Comp. as D-Link [Indias] limited with effect from 1st July 1998.

- It look almost one year to set-up the Factory & D-Link Corporation delegates on visting India were impressed enough to invest financially.

- Taiwan assured the Indan Promoter Mr. K.R. Naik that it will consider taking up a stake in the Comp. only after satisfactory commissioning of project as per it straingent standards.

- D-Link [Indias] limited has introduced a new category of products for family & SOHO category.

- D-Link Infotech Ltd is a subsidiaries of company.

2001 - The Comp. a subsidiary of D-Link Corporation of Taiwan, is entering the capital market with a public issue of 15,23,740 No. of equity shares of Rs 10 each.

-D-Link has unveiled the V.90 USB 56K modem with which one can fulfil the craving for extreme multimedia-intensive Web surfing.

2002

-Panaji High court approves for amalgamation of Open Link Network [ps] Ltd & D-Link India Ltd.

-Grants 23000 options to employees under D-Link ESOP Plan

-Board approves for stock split of 1 equty share of Rs.10 each into shares of Rs. 2 each.

-Enters high-end market with the launch of 5 new products which gigabit copper structured cabling systems.

-Joins hands with Gigabyte Technology Ltd, Taiwan to develop, manufacture & market motherboards under the brand name of DigiLink-Gigabyte.

-Company software & R&D centre moves to a new state of art facility in Bangalore.

-Launches a series of Layer 3 switches namely DGS-3308 TG, DGS-3308 FG, DES-3326S and DES-6300.

-Decides to buyback the company shares, not exceeding Rs. 16 crore at a price of up to Rs. 80 per equity share.

-D-Link [Indias], voted as the most admired IT vendor for structured cabling & low end networking in the first ever CRN channels poll in India.

-Unveils range of networking space encompassing storage segment, web solutions & security based products for large enterprises.

-Enters into an agreement with Keltron to bring the latest networking technology Products to Kerala.

-Broadens wireless product spectrum - launches 22Mbps indoor & 11Mbps highspeed wireless network products for small & midsize businesses & enterprise workgroups.

-Releases Modem based IP phones in local language voice prompts.

2003

-Launches DVC-1000 i2eye videophone in India.

-Signs long term supply agreement with Corning Inc for Optical Fibre.

-Launches TFT LCD Monitors under the brand name Digi-View.

-Signs MoU to promote a joint venture Comp. Digi Giga Systems Ltd.

-Acquires 7 High speed SMT line to be installed at Goa plant.

-Appoints M/s Links 4 Networks Limited as Distributor of Comp. for UK & Ireland.

-Starts Global tech support centre in Mumbai

-Sets up wireless LAN at RajBhavan to enable anywhere-anytime connectivity.

-D-Link India Ltd has informed that the Hon'ble High Court of Bombay has directed that an a Meeting of Equity Shareholders of Comp. be convened on January 24, 2004 to take the approval of shareholders for amalgamation of Virtual Computers Pvt Ltd [a 100% subsidiarys] with the Company.

2004

-D-Link ties up with Foundry Networks

-D-Link [Indias] Limited has informed that the Comp. has invested a sum of Rs.35 Lakhs, i.e. 10% of total paid up capital in Mercury Link Systems Limited.

-D-Link India launches India designed products based on Intel Xscale Technologies

-D-Link launches 'Get into the flow' program for channel partners in the states of Karnataka & Kerala

2006

-D-Link India Ltd has informed that Mr. Chandrasekhar Kopparapu has resigned as Director on the Board of Directors & the Board has approved his resignation.

-D-Link [Indias] Limited has appointed Mr. Pradeep Rane as Non Executive and Independent Director on the Board of Comp. w.e.f. December 26,2006.

-D-Link India Ltd has announced that on December 01, 2007 the Comp. inaugurated its new R&D center at Electronic City, Bangalore.