At Cisco's new $50m, 14-acre campus in Bangalore, the cricket pitch is not quite finished. Cranes and trucks rumble, and not far from the basketball courts, the aerobics and yoga rooms are still being completed.

Cisco Globalisation Centre East, as Cisco's largest research and design centre outside the US is called, opened late last year in India's southern technology hub. The sleek main building already houses 1,000 employees and the number will grow to 3,000 this year and 10,000 in 2011.