Tata Communications Wins Awards for Global Telecoms Business Innovation
Tata Communications received two awards at the Global Telecoms Business 2008 Innovation Awards, which took place earlier this month in London.
This firm, which was recognized for its International wholesale network transformation for its Global IP Voice network and International network infrastructure transformation for the TGN-Intra Asia and TGN-Eurasia submarine cables, was selected by an exclusive judging panel based on the company’s innovations worldwide.
“Tata Communications has taken the lead in transforming our global voice network to next-generation capabilities, this award illustrates our strength and commitment to offering innovative and revenue generating services to providers in the IP Voice space,” commented Michel Guyot, President, Global Voice Solutions, Tata Communications.
“We are extremely pleased to be the recipient of these esteemed awards. Global Telecoms Business recognizing our development in cable expansion further acknowledges our strategy to expand our global transmission network through innovative partnership models with other regional players,” remarked Mr. Vinod Kumar, Chief Operating Officer, Tata Communications.
Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards felicitate the most innovative projects and initiatives undertaken by companies in the telecommunications industry. “Tata Communications is leading the industry in cable build out and network expansion in the telecommunications market, we are pleased to present them with both prestigious awards and look forward to their continued work in bringing groundbreaking innovations to carriers, enterprises, and customers worldwide,” said Alan Burkitt-Gray, Editor of Global Telecoms Business.
The Global Telecom Business Awards are a huge draw for the industry with about 250 leaders of industry from around the world attending the 2008 ceremony at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London. The guest list included Chief Executive Officers, Chief Technology Officers and leaders from operators and vendors across the globe.
About Tata Communications
Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, is a leading global provider of a new world of communications. The emerging markets communications leader leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to multi-national and Indian enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.
The firm’s range of services include transmission, IP, converged voice, mobility, managed network connectivity, hosting and storage, managed security, managed collaboration, and business transformation for global enterprises and service providers, as well as Internet, retail broadband and content services for Indian consumers. The Tata Global Network encompasses one of the most advanced and largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with connectivity to more than 200 countries across 300 Pops, and more than 1 million square feet of data center and co-location facilities.
Tata Communications’ unique emerging market depth and breadth of reach includes a national fiber backbone network and access to network in over 60 cities and 125 Pops in India, strategic investments in South African converged services operator, Neotel, Sri Lanka, and Nepal and, subject to fulfillment of conditions precedent, a 50% ownership in China Enterprise Communications (CEC) providing full country VPN coverage in China.
Servicing customers from its offices in over 80 cities in 40 countries, Tata Communications is the number one global international wholesale voice operator and number one provider of international long distance, enterprise data, and Internet services in India, the Company was named “Best Wholesale Carrier” at the World Communications Awards in 2006, “Best Pan-Asian Wholesale Provider” at the 2006 and 2007 Capacity Magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards and was awarded “Best Progress in Emerging Markets” at the 2008 Mobile Communication Awards.
Tata Communications Limited along with its global subsidiaries, (Tata Communications), is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL)
About Global Telecom Business Magazine and the GTB Innovations Awards
About 250 leaders of the industry from around the world attended the 2008 ceremony at the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London on the evening of Tuesday, September 9, 2008. Guests at the ceremony included chief executive officers, chief technology officers and other leaders from operators and vendors throughout the world, including Europe, China, Africa, India, Russia, North and South America, and the Pacific.
Hundreds of nominations for the industry’s innovative projects were received from the readers of Global Telecoms Business since early in 2008 in a number of key categories.
The winners, as selected by the judging panel, represent the most innovative projects in the industry worldwide in four key categories:
1: fixed infrastructure and operations;
2: wireless infrastructure and operations;
3: business fixed and mobile service innovations; and
4: consumer fixed and mobile service innovations
Website: http://www.tatacommunications.com
Related Articles:
- Tata Communications Awarded “Best Market Strategy” at the Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards Tata Communications won the “Best Market Strategy” award at the Annual Capacity magazine Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards in Amsterdam. The awards, held at Capacity Europe 2008, recognize significant key market players that applied innovation and successful techniques and strategies to their wholesale businesses to have established themselves as leaders in the global wholesale telecoms industry. "Tata Communications is thrilled to be recognized once again among our peers by the Capacity organization for our efforts in the telecommunications industry,” said Michel Guyot, President, Global Voice Solutions for Tata Communications. "The award for ‘Best Market Strategy’ exemplifies our continued commitment to offering...
- Sonus Networks and Tata Communications Unveil Strategic Plan for Global IP-Voice Network Tata Communications’ global voice network to be migrated by Sonus Networks Tata Communications and Sonus Networks, Inc. unveiled plans for the strategic expansion of Tata Communications’ global voice network. The Tata Communications’ global voice network expansion represents further execution of the Company’s mission to expand its global reach and ability to deliver IP-leveraged communications solutions to businesses and consumers worldwide. Tata Communications will, also, deploy Sonus’ Network Border Switch to interconnect its disparate voice networks and deliver seamless IP services across geographies. “When undertaking international deployments of this scale, we need a partner who really understands our business goals,” said...
- TeleManagement Forum Excellence Awards to Recognize Global Operational Innovation The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) has announced the launch of the “TM Forum Excellence Awards,†aimed at recognizing operators, system integrators and software companies that have made outstanding contributions towards 21st century telecom business transformation through noteworthy operational and service delivery initiatives. Mick Reeves, former Group Technology Officer of UK telecoms giant BT, will head up the judging panel. The submissions are being accepted through January 31, 2007 and winners will be announced at a formal awards ceremony and gala dinner attended by an international audience of industry leaders and senior executives from the OSS and BSS world, to be...
- Tata Communications MPLS Connectivity Extended to the Middle East Global MPLS Network Expanded with Batelco Partnership Today, Tata Communications announced its partnership with Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) provided another key milestone in the global expansion of its MPLS network into the Middle East. In addition to being Bahrain’s leading integrated communications provider, Batelco is providing end-to-end telecommunications solutions to retail and enterprise customers in the Middle East region. This partnership has enabled Tata Communications to offer MPLS (Multi Protocol Label Switching) VPN services into Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and other locations within the region for its customers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world. The Middle East region...
- Tata Communications Signs Equity Joint Venture Agreement with Shareholders of China Enterprise Communications Limited Tata Communications International Pte Ltd. signed an equity joint venture agreement (EJV) with the shareholders of China Enterprise Communications Limited (CEC) for the acquisition of 50 per cent equity interest in CEC. This joint venture, which will become effective after the necessary approvals from the relevant government and regulatory bodies in China are obtained, will be the first-of-its-kind in the Chinese telecom sector post China’s entering the WTO. “The strategic cooperation between China Enterprise Communications and Tata Communications was carried out under the background of economic globalization, and the fact that China and India are driving the 21st century world...
- Tata Communications Provides Beijing Olympics with Prepaid Roaming Foreign mobile users attending events have seamless roaming available Tata Communications announced that they are bringing prepaid roaming to the 2008 Beijing Olympics with its Intelligent CAMEL eXchange (ICX), a service that significantly reduces the time and cost of implementing international prepaid roaming relationships between mobile network operators. Four of the world’s largest mobile network operators will team up with one of China’s largest mobile phone operators, to pioneer roaming to the Beijing Olympic Games using Tata Communications’ wholesale, feature-rich service. The service will allow the Chinese carrier to offer inbound prepaid roaming for its roaming partners seamlessly, in time...
- Tata Communications Increases Connectivity Presence to Africa South Africa’s Neotel Launches MPLS, IP, IPLC and Ethernet Services to facilitate region's telecom growth Tata Communications announced the further expansion of its network reach into Africa through an arrangement with Neotel, which is South Africa’s first converged communications network operator. The South African government and business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has invested a tremendous amount of time and effort in positioning the country as a preferred BPO or contact centre destination. This could soon become a reality with the announcement of a new multi-service Point of Presence (PoP) which has been established in Johannesburg by Tata Communications in association...
- Tata Communications and Bharti Telesoft to Launch Intelligent CAMEL eXchange Tata Communications introduces next generation service globally, following its Beijing success Tata Communications announced a partnership with Bharti Telesoft, a leading mobile VAS solution provider, today resulting in the launch of its Intelligent CAMEL eXchange (ICX), a value-added service that enables mobile operators to significantly reduce the time frame, cost of implementing, and maintaining CAMEL roaming relationships. In August 2008, Tata Communications offered its ICX service on a limited-availability basis to four of the world’s largest mobile network operators, allowing them to open up CAMEL-based roaming to one of China's largest mobile phone operators in time for the Beijing Olympic...
- Tata Communications Application Performance Optimization Service Launched Customers have help to boost Network Performance by Ipanema Partnership Tata Communications launch its Application Performance Optimization (APO) service that provides companies with end-to-end, network application management. Ipanema Technologies, a well-known WAN optimization solutions provider, is one of the technology partners for this service. Tata Communications’ APO service available globally, is highly scalable, and can be implemented across thousands of sites. The service offers a unique consultative approach in the delivery of Application Performance Services. The service helps companies dramatically improve the performance of network applications that feed core business processes, increasing productivity and user satisfaction by reducing transaction delays...
- Tata Communications Brings Virtualized Unified Threat Management (vUTM) to India Enterprises in India looking to optimize network management costs targeted by hosted security Tata Communications introduced virtualized Unified Threat Management (vUTM) for the first time in India. This firm is the first service provider in India to offer its customers virtual UTM which integrates critical security functions including firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, anti-virus, anti-spam, and Web content filtering as part of its Managed Security Services portfolio. Tata Communications has partnered with Fortinet, a pioneer and leading provider of UTM solutions, as the technology supplier for its vUTM service. This company’s vUTM customers can now look forward to increased network...



