Sify Technologies Limited has announced its partnership with Saudi Telecom (STC), the largest telecom services provider in the Middle East and North Africa. This partnership will provide customers and partners wider network reach, enhanced portfolio of services and efficiencies of scale in today?s 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 a wide network footprint throughout the Middle East, Africa and India. With the development of joint services, this partnership will enhance Sify?s ability to deliver global capabilities, scalability and performance reliability to customers worldwide who demand managed services and connectivity into India, the Middle East & African region.”
?Our partnership 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 ?
?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 Telecom?s vice president of the Wholesale Business Unit, ?Our partnership with Sify allows us deliver network service reach into India, alternative network path and efficient Internet routing and most importantly leverage on Sify?s value added ICT offerings like cloud services, SaaS as well as managed integration services to STC?s customers.?
Elaborating on the partnership, Abhijit Barua, senior vice president, Sify Technologies, said ?This partnership will leverage and strengthen our joint product portfolio to create new revenue streams. Sify?s role will be to provide expertise in managed services including cloud services and SaaS offerings in the Middle East and African markets.?
As announced earlier, Sify?s EIG (Europe India Gateway) submarine cable capacities are ready for activation and Sify?s 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.
