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PTCL & CISCO sign service provider partnership agreement

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Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and CISCO have announced a strategic partnership to deliver services to businesses in Pakistan through signing a Service Provider Partnership agreement.

The signing ceremony was held at PTCL HQ, Islamabad. Zarrar Hasham Khan, Chief Business Services Officer, PTCL and Kashif Ul Haque, Country General Manager, Cisco, signed the agreement, along with senior officials from both the organizations.

Under this partnership, both companies aim to work collectively and modernize the IT infrastructure by offering cost-effective and innovative services. This will, not only be limited to technology, but will also include providing strategic guidance and roadmap to successfully navigate the customer’s digital transformation journey.

On the occasion, Zarrar Hasham Khan, Chief Business Services Officer, PTCL, said: “This partnership with Cisco will allow PTCL to serve our customers across the geographic and demographic boundaries to exceed their expectations. It will also be instrumental in supporting Pakistan in the digital transformation journey, as it will be facilitating the creation of a holistic digital workspace and lifestyle. We will be able to provide our corporate customers with a technological foundation that is secure and integrates connectivity, automation and analytics for better collaboration across the entire business value-chain.”

On the occasion, Kashif Ul Haque, Country General Manager, Cisco, said, “Together Cisco and PTCL will be able to transform the way businesses are carried out in Pakistan. Our focus is on being the catalyst for change through SPaaCH (Service Provider as a Channel) that will be utilized in the most optimized and efficient manner. We truly appreciate this partnership that will enable us to transform our customers’ networks into a software-based and more agile platform.”

PTCL remains at the forefront to take such initiatives that will pave the way for latest Cloud-based solutions and managed services, enabling our corporate customers across Pakistan.

PTCL & CISCO sign service provider partnership agreement
PTCL & CISCO sign service provider partnership agreement

 

 

 

 

PTCL signs contracts with Huawei for transformation of its IP Edge & Optical Transport Network

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Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), has signed strategic contracts with Huawei Technologies Pakistan for the transformation of its IP Edge and Optical Transport Network (OTN). 

Nadeem Khan, Acting CEO & Group CFO, PTCL & Ufone and Mark Meng, CEO, Huawei Technologies Pakistan, signed the contract during a ceremony held at PTCL HQ, Islamabad. Jafar Khalid, GCTIO (Development), PTCL & Ufone, Ahmed Bilal Masud, Deputy CEO, Huawei Technologies Pakistan, also attended the ceremony, along with senior management from both organizations.

Aimed to meet the exponential growth in traffic, this transformation involves modernization of existing inter-city and long-haul network, with a state-of-the-art OTN network. Combined with the existing Optical Transport Network backbone, PTCL long-haul capacity will become Multiple Terabits per seconds, capable of delivering better services across the country.

Furthermore, PTCL, in-line with its vision to revolutionize widespread availability of IP connectivity in Pakistan, will deploy a Unified IP Edge network, spreading across more than 130 sites, for providing next generation IP services. This upgradation, along with PTCL’s recently modernized Multi-Service Core & Internet Gateway network, will enable provisioning of high-speed & reliable ICT services across Corporate, Carrier & Consumers segments, supporting future customer-end demands of 100-400 Gigabit per second scalability.

Speaking on the occasion, Nadeem Khan, Acting CEO & Group CFO, PTCL & Ufone, said, “PTCL continues to transform its network with scalable architecture and futuristic technologies, to meet growing bandwidth demand from our subscribers, corporate and carrier customers. We are glad to partner with Huawei on this strategic initiative, that will go a long way in enabling the widespread availability of quality ICT Services across Pakistan.”

On the occasion, Mark Meng, CEO, Huawei Technologies Pakistan, said, “We greatly value our long-term relationship with PTCL Group, and continue to support its vision for technological evolution. PTCL is playing a leading role in enhancing customer experience through innovation, and definitely this network transformation will empower and exceed customer expectations in times to come.”

Being the national flagship carrier, PTCL is fully committed to the vision of a Digital Pakistan, by further strengthening its commitment for continual network infrastructure evolution and resolve for consistent improvement of our valued customer experience.