Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CITIC Telecom CPC Expands ASEAN Points of Presence to
support
Regional Proliferation of Innovative Technology Businesses
and Smart Cities
Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta Latest Gateways in Ongoing Regional
Rollout to Meet Growing Demand for TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid (SD-WAN) Solution
and other Managed Enterprise Cloud Solutions
SINGAPORE, 12 JANUARY 2021 – CITIC Telecom International CPC
Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom
International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), has recently completed its Kuala
Lumpur and Jakarta network gateway deployments for its TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid
(SD-WAN, Software Defined Wide Area Network) enterprise connectivity solution.
These latest SD-WAN gateways, powered by VMware, follow
CITIC Telecom CPC’s ongoing initiatives to anticipate and address demand for
innovative, high performance, and agile Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) solutions in the fastest-growing markets in ASEAN. In 2016 the
company expanded Russian and Eastern European coverage to serve its customers
better, encompassing CITIC Telecom CPC’s full range of end-to-end managed
services, including MPLS, cloud, and managed network security solutions.
By further enhancing the footprint and capacity of
TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid in ASEAN, CITIC Telecom CPC (CPC) is catering to the
significantly growing base of Innovative Technology Businesses and Smart Cities
being created in the region. TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid’s ASEAN coverage now includes
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and Jakarta.
“We have always focused on identifying and serving the most
important needs in the most important market segments,” said Mr. Taylor Lam,
Senior Vice President of Product Development & Management from CITIC
Telecom CPC. “Within a year of its launch, TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid already covers
nearly 50 gateways across 49 cities in 15 countries, including six (6) in
Southeast Asia. These new ASEAN gateways in Malaysia and Indonesia underscore
our commitment to ASEAN customers and highlight our continued strong SD-WAN
partnership with VMware. More network gateways translate to better link
quality, lower latency and overall improved performance.”
With TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid, a fully managed and better secured
SD-WAN connectivity solution, customers can leverage the most cost-effective
bandwidth available without compromising QoS delivery. Enterprises can
dynamically create hybrid networks that bind multiple access technologies into
single logical paths, taking advantage of MPLS linkages' reliability, security,
and performance, yet limiting associated expenses. Network traffic is steered
intelligently on optimal paths at the best times to increase performance and
reduce costs. It improves business agility, application performance, bandwidth
conservation and maximizes business application accessibility. TrueCONNECT™
Hybrid achieves these compelling advantages without requiring the high
traditional costs, additional in-house staffing or other ongoing overhead
expenses, often prohibitive for companies with tight budgets and timeframes. IT
managers also gain more visibility, traffic routing control, rapid deployment
and recovery, all with almost zero on-site IT personnel.
The new Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta network gateways
significantly enhance TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid performance across ASEAN, long
popular as an ideal region for world leading technology companies expanding
physical presence. In particular, Singapore’s political and legal stability and
transparency have attracted considerable investment from MNCs and global
technology pioneers to the city-state, including purchasing significant real
property in the central business district and establishing innovation research
labs. ASEAN as a whole is receiving increasing venture capital from around the
world.
“A huge percentage of the ASEAN population is digitally
savvy,” said Mr. Derek Ung, General Manager, Enterprise Sales, CITIC Telecom
CPC. “Companies and people are eager to embrace and enjoy new technological
products and services. ASEAN is still
relatively under-represented in terms of tech startups. The potential for
solutions that support all these new businesses and government projects
especially smart city initiatives is huge, and creates opportunities for
win/win/win for our company, our partners such as VMware, and our customers.”
The latest Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
(RCEP) is setting out the framework for becoming the largest free trade area in
the world. It is a potential window to reshape the future of trade as well as
to propel enterprises to capitalize new opportunities across Asia Pacific.
Further, analyst research has pointed to
potentially immense ASEAN growth of its digital economy to some $300 billion
over the next five years, likely encompassing multiple areas including smart
products and services in mobility, e-commerce, travel, social media,
telecommunications and even healthcare, the latter driven by telehealth demands
in Southeast Asian countries lacking sufficient medical workers, and COVID-19
social distancing impacts. The “Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025” has also forecast up to $625 billion in
annual economic impact in ASEAN by 2030, through disruptive technologies such
as mobile Internet, Big Data, Cloud and Internet of Things applications.
“We may also see tremendous growth in fintech as the
financial sector leverages new connectivity and computing technologies to
innovate banking and investment services,” added Derek, CPC. “Manufacturing is
yet another area that will evolve, with many regional companies relocating or
building out their supply chain in ASEAN. With our latest gateway deployment,
we want to be ready to serve our customers in ASEAN and those moving to ASEAN.”
The new ASEAN gateways for TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid fortify CITIC
Telecom CPC’s ability to maintain its high-quality SLA commitment to ASEAN
enterprise customers, enabling high network performance without compromising on
responsiveness or reliability. The enhanced network capacity is also crucial
for the region’s emerging new digital businesses and smart cities, including
the New Normal “Work From Home” approach being adopted worldwide. Robust
network performance without sluggishness or outages is especially relevant for
organizations migrating applications and workloads to cloud platforms via
business digitalization initiatives.
“We are very excited to partner with CITIC Telecom CPC and
help them deliver TrueCONNECT™ Hybrid to ASEAN customers,” said Abe Ankumah,
senior director, SD-WAN and SASE Business, VMware. “VMware SD-WAN Gateways are
a unique and key component of our architecture, and for even the most demanding
connectivity requirements, enterprises will be well-supported by the many
high-performance gateways deployed by CITIC Telecom CPC throughout this
region.”
“We are fully committed to the long-term success of our
customers,” said Taylor, CPC. “From Q1 2021, we plan to expand our network
gateways to 10 more cities including in the Philippines, to ensure that we
deliver the best experience to our customers.”
1 [Note 1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southeast-asia-internet/southeast-asias-internet-economy-to-hit-300-billion-by-2025-report-idUSKBN1WI07X
2 [Note 2] “Master
Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025”, Page 48. https://asean.org/storage/2016/09/Master-Plan-on-ASEAN-Connectivity-20251.pdf
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About CITIC Telecom CPC
We
are CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly
owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883),
serving multinational enterprises the world over by addressing their specific
ICT requirements with highly scalable tailored solutions built upon our
flagship technology suites, comprising TrueCONNECT™ private network solutions,
TrustCSI™ information security solutions, DataHOUSE™ cloud data center
solutions, and SmartCLOUD™ cloud computing solutions.
As
a leading Global Local ICT Solutions Partner with worldwide footprint across
East to West and native presence, we truly live our motto, “Innovation Never
Stops.” Being a preferred Digital Society Enabler, we lead our key markets at
the forefront of pioneering ICT development, embracing AI, AR, Big Data, IoT,
and other cutting-edge emerging technologies to transform technical potential
into real-world value for our customers, helping them achieve higher
productivity, agility, cost-efficiency, and ultimately, Digital
Globalization.
As
one of the first managed service providers in Hong Kong to achieve ISO 9001,
14001, 20000, 27001, and 27017 ICT-related certifications, CITIC Telecom CPC
delivers on our superior quality commitment through a broad global self-managed
infrastructure encompassing some of the highest growth markets in Asia, Europe
and America, with over 140 points of presence, 18 Cloud service centers, 30+
data centers, and two dedicated 24x7 Security Operations Centers.
For
more information please visit www.citictel-cpc.com
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Media Contacts:
June Tay
CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited
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Email: june.tay@citictel-cpc.com
