About Calport: our history, team and core values

Calport Technologies, established in 1995, offers various internet related services and solutions to individuals as well as corporate, educational and nonprofit organizations in eastern India. We specialize in computer based communication and have showcased our technical prowess via Calport BBS (an electronic Bulletin Board System, online since 1995) and our other award winning internet properties.

Calport BBS, our initial offering, was the pioneering online service in eastern India. We offered internet email under the indiax.com domain, usenet newsgroups and file downloads before any other ISP started operations in India.

Calport BBS and the history of internet in India

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Professional Internet Services

Calport is an internet services company: we are not just a website design or mobile app development company. We are not like the many Wordpress shops which produce beautiful websites.

From inception we have positioned ourselves as a provider of internet services - and remained true to this even at the height of the dotcom boom of the '90s, when everyone was making millions by developing portals and selling websites. At Calport we focus on developing our own in-house platforms for a wide range of solutions such as digital marketing, web analytics, monetization and web hosting, among others. This gives us an edge over those of our competitors who resell the services of others or limit the benefit that they are able to provide to their clients to whatever IT is ready-made and available off-the-shelf.

Our clients benefit by using our robust and functional solutions which we freely customize to meet subjective requirements and upon which our client's business processes run without the compromise of being force-fit into a 'one size fits all' solution.

Calport owns and operates the following:

Enterprise grade SATA and SSD for storage and backup of our client's data
Engine to convert PC web content to mobile ready formats to offer mobility solutions to clients
Industrial strength bulk mail servers to enable our clients to do email marketing
Web analytics platform which offers more than Google Analytics
Private ad server to truly monetize websites and mobile apps
Database hosting on multiple RDBMSs and Hadoop clusters to let clients get started with Big Data solutions

We are proud to say that we have designed and hosted hundreds of websites and have successfully implemented diverse projects related to various aspects of computer and internet based communication which have impacted millions of satisfied users in India and other countries of the world.

Our mission is to enable our clients to:

Fully leverage the communication capabilities of their computer networks
Add value to their internet resources
Communicate more effectively and economically with clients, subscribers and visitors
Manage relationships with customers
Have greater control over their work-group

Aside from the services listed on our website, we also develop customized solutions to address niche requirements - especially if the problem is challenging or if the 'experts' have declared it impossible / impractical / unfeasible to do.

Our short term strategy for the future is to consolidate our relationship with website owners in India by cross-selling and upselling the modular web services offered through India Exchange (indiax.com) as well as the services and solutions offered on this website.

Our long term strategy involves developing services which can be accessed through computers, mobile phones and other devices by users who use English as well as Indic languages.

We offer professional internet services with the vision: the internet is for everyone.

Calport is powered by a team of talented people

Niel Hirjee does things 'his way' - a living example of chaos theory in action. His primary responsibility at Calport is systems administration.

Angshuman Sett brings over a decade of experience in marketing, market research, analytics and brand promotion. He is founder director of NIHT and IRCMD which together have a network of 100+ skill development centers offering courses in traditional IT as well as new and emerging fields.

Amritava Mazumder combines his natural creative flare with his knowledge of computer software to produce outstanding results in the areas of copy-writing and design for print & web.

Malobika Chaudhuri assists the team with translation of content into Indian and European languages as well as content development in syntactically correct international English.

Samit Roychowdhury has trained as a designer from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in the 1990's and is currently freelancing as a website, graphic and map designer. Samit assists the team on high value projects for web and print design.

Aarti Hirjee is educationalist by training but her time is commandeered to run quality checks on the team's design output.