In New Delhi: Sify Technologies has announced their partnership with Saudi Telecom (STC) of North Africa. As per the company, this partnership will provide customers and partners wider network reach, richer portfolio of services and most importantly, the efficiencies of scale in todays growth markets by leveraging their respective investments in submarine and terrestrial telecom capacities and value added ICT services.
Speaking on the occasion, Raju Vegesna, Chairman and Managing Director, Sify Technologies said, "We are proud to be associated with STC, the largest telecom carrier in the Middle East. This partnership will help us deliver the most robust network footprint throughout the Middle East, Africa and India. With the development of joint services, this partnership will enhance SIFYs ability to deliver unparalleled global capabilities, scalability and performance reliability to customers worldwide who demand managed services and connectivity into India, the Middle East & African region."
"Our partnership with the market leader will help establish a seamless ICT service for our enterprise customers and help our Indian, Asian and US Carrier partners connect to Middle Eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Sudan and East African countries like Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and Madagascar, he added.
With the largest international network in the Middle East and Africa, Saudi Telecom is the only Middle East operator today that has international connectivity by way of both multiple submarine cable systems and a terrestrial cable system via the recently launched Jeddah-Amman-Damascus-Istanbul (JADI) link, said Saad Demyati, Saudi Telecoms vice president of Wholesale Business Unit. "Our partnership with SIFY allows us deliver best in class network service reach into India, alternative network path and efficient Internet routing and most importantly leverage on SIFYs value added ICT offerings like cloud services, SaaS as well as managed integration services to STCs customers, he added.
Elaborating on the partnership, Abhijit Barua, Sr. Vice President, Sify Technologies, said "This partnership will leverage and strengthen our joint product portfolio to create new revenue streams. Sifys role will be to provide expertise in innovative managed services including cloud services and SaaS offerings in the Middle East and African markets."
STC General Manager of Marketing, Abdulhameed M. Al Hamad, stated: "We are pleased to announce the establishment of our latest PoP in India. This is a major milestone in our Saudi Global Management Network "SGMN" rollout into major regional economic hubs including the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, India, UK and Singapore. SGMN is a global Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and available in key hub destinations around the world. As one of the largest regional Internet Protocol (IP-based) networks, it provides services for leading global enterprises from a variety of industry sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, logistics, as well as oil & gas and pharmaceutical industry. SGMN network is based on the latest state-of-art technology and is extremely reliable and diverse.
As announced earlier, Sifys EIG (Europe India Gateway) submarine cable capacities are ready for activation and Sifys exclusive partnership with GBI (Gulf Bridge International) to land their Submarine Cable System in India, is scheduled to go live in second half of 2011.
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