Sify Technologies and Saudi Telecom Form Partnership.

Sify Technologies Limited, a provider of converged ICT services in India, announced its partnership with Saudi Telecom, a telecom services provider in the Middle East and North Africa.

In a release, 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 SIFY's ability to deliver unparalleled global capabilities, scalability and performance reliability to customers worldwide who demand managed services and connectivity into India, the Middle East and 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."

"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 link," said Saad Demyati, Saudi Telecom's 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 Sify's value added ICT offerings like cloud services, SaaS as well as managed integration services to STC's customers."

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 innovative managed services including cloud services and SaaS offerings in the Middle East and African markets."

STC General Manager of Marketing, Abdulhameed Al Hamad, said, "We are pleased to announce the establishment of our latest PoP in India. This is a major milestone in our Saudi Global Management Network 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 and available in key hub destinations around the world. As one of the largest regional Internet Protocol networks, it provides services for leading global enterprises from a variety of industry sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, logistics, as well as oil and gas and pharmaceutical industry. SGMN network is based on the latest state-of-art technology and is extremely reliable and diverse."

Sify Technologies is a Managed Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services company in India.

Saudi Telecom Company is a telecommunications company.

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