Pacnet and Bharti Airtel Join Forces to Deliver Enhanced Connectivity To and From India
Pacnet
(Business News, 18/6/2008)
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SINGAPORE, June 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- During a media briefing in Singapore, Pacnet and Bharti Airtel today signed an NNI (network-to-network interface) agreement to interconnect their respective networks, expanding connections to and from India. (Logo: http://www.xprn.com/xprn/sa/200803051036.jpg ) Under the scope of the agreement, the two companies will directly interconnect their network infrastructure to expand their respective MPLS (multi protocol label switching) -based IP VPN (Internet Protocol virtual private network) capabilities and to provide advanced IP solutions to key business customers in the region. 'As we continue to see high growth in enterprise communication requirements to and from India, we are pleased to team up with Bharti Airtel in delivering seamless connectivity to our customers. This partnership will help strengthen our reach across all major business markets within India as well as provide customers with industry-leading communication solutions,' said Bill Barney, Chief Executive Officer, Pacnet. 'This agreement is in line with our strategy to extend the global reach of our customers and providing them a secure, consistent and robust network running right from their doorstep to the most populous markets across Asia Pacific and beyond. Airtel痴 India expertise coupled with Pacnet痴 international capability will enable us to provide integrated communications solutions to satisfy requirements for quality, value, consistency and reliability,' noted David Nishball, President of Enterprise Services, Bharti Airtel. Pacnet is one of the pioneers of MPLS technology in Asia with a regional MPLS-TE (traffic-engineered) infrastructure. The company was also the first to introduce the IP VPN service with 5 classes of service and usage-based pricing including M-Flex, the industry痴 first pay-as-you-go IPVPN offering. With PoPs (points of presence) across 125 cities and 73787 kilometres of optic fibre cable covering all major cities in India, Airtel is India痴 leading integrated telecom service provider. It has recently invested in a number of cable consortiums expanding its global footprint with the aim of providing reliable, resilient global networking solutions for its customers. The company has one of India痴 leading advanced MPLS IP backbone infrastructures which support multiple applications with enhanced scalability and service assurance. About Pacnet Pacnet is the region痴 largest independent telecommunications service provider, formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet. Pacnet owns and operates EAC-C2C, Asia痴 longest submarine cable infrastructure at 36,800 km, with a design capacity of 10.24 Tbps. With a comprehensive portfolio of city-to-city connectivity, data communications and IP-based solutions and services, Pacnet delivers solutions for carrier, large enterprises and small/medium businesses. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore with offices in all key markets in Asia and North America. For more information, please visit: http://www.pacnet.com . About Bharti Airtel Limited Bharti Airtel Limited, a group company of Bharti Enterprises, is India痴 leading integrated telecom services provider with an aggregate of over 69.15 million customers as of end of May 2008, consisting of 66.82 million mobile customers. Bharti Airtel has been rated among the best performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007. Bharti Airtel is structured into three strategic business units -- Mobile services, Telemedia services and Enterprise services. The mobile business provides mobile & fixed wireless services using GSM technology across 23 telecom circles. The Telemedia business provides broadband & telephone services in 94 cities and is foraying into the IPTV and DTH segments. The Enterprise business provides end-to-end telecom solutions to corporate customers and national & international long distance services to carriers. All these services are provided under the Airtel brand. Airtel痴 high-speed optic fibre network currently spans over 73,787 kms covering all the major cities in the country. The company has two international landing stations in Chennai that connects two submarine cable systems -- i2i to Singapore and SEA-ME-WE-4 to Europe. For more information, visit http://www.bhartiairtel.in . FOR MORE INFORMATION, Contact: Roland Lim Pacnet Tel: +852-2121-2975 Email: roland.lim@pacnet.com Vibha Gupta Bharti Airtel Tel: +91-98-1070-3396 Email: vibha.gupta@airtel.in
