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SMART NATION
Connecting people and places Many different kinds of applications and services
and making better use of data will be developed and more demands will be foisted
Avaya SmartUC
In May, we team up with Avaya, a
leading provider of customer and team
communication solutions, to provide
a comprehensive suite of unified
communications capabilities, SmartUC.
Targeted at SMBs but easily scalable to
support large enterprises of up to 2,500
users, SmartUC is based on the Avaya IP
Office platform. This solution offers just
about any manner of communication
channel that is preferred within an office
environment: voice, SMS, web chat, video,
email, or fax. IP Office also helps people
work from anywhere, integrating effortlessly
with mobile devices and video solutions on
multiple systems and platforms.
We bring to the table our Session Initiation
Protocol Voice, and our close relationship
with the growing base of enterprise
customers. We believe with SmartUC, we are
offering a cost-effective way for the business
community to operate more efficiently, as
they go about growing their own businesses.
SDN Switch
To better prepare for our expanding business
of serving business customers, we have made
careful plans to deploy an infrastructure that
can better support the growth.
In April, we began to transform our existing
core and access networks to open, cloud-
based networks using SDN technology.
Simply put, SDN is a more flexible way of
managing increasingly dynamic IT networks.
SDN technology will help us improve our
ability to deliver bandwidth in a more flexible leverage each party’s networks as well as
way to our corporate customers.
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upon networks, and we are ready to do our part.
One need not be within the IT industry to We began to transform Overview
appreciate that businesses are operating our existing core and
in ever-complex environments where there access networks to open,
is an explosion of customers and staff cloud-based networks
using a myriad of applications and devices, using SDN technology.
anytime, anywhere. The design of our SDN
environment was finalised together with our Strategy
technology partners Cisco and Huawei. We
expect to achieve complete transformation Performance
to SDN in two years.
Governance & Sustainability
Smart Nation
We have all heard about the Smart
Nation initiative that Singapore is trying
to push. At the core, a Smart Nation is
about connecting people and places and
making better use of data generated by
the connections. Many different kinds
of applications and services will be
developed, and it is not certain if all will
take off, but what is certain is that more
data will be generated, more demands
will be foisted upon networks, and we
are ready to do our part. For one, we are
on track to lay our own fibre network
throughout the island, with full redundancy
by 2020.
Ooredoo Myanmar
Ties between Singapore and Myanmar
have always been close but with the
latter opening up further, we are making
better connections, literally. In April, we
announced a strategic partnership with
Ooredoo Myanmar, one of the leading telcos
in Myanmar. We will collaborate on the
provision of international private leased lines,
as well as managed services, such as IP-VPN,
through each telco’s network. We hope to
reach and expertise in our home markets,
benefitting both our respective corporate
customers and consumers.
Financials