VSNL ties up with Cable & Wireless

Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has announced a strategic tie-up with

UK-based Cable & Wireless to provide enhanced global telecom services to

Indian corporate customers. The two companies already have a long-standing

partnership for voice-based services and are looking to enhance the existing

arrangement through this tie-up.

The services being offered by the two companies would include Asynchronous

Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame Relay, Secure, Dial, Multi protocol label

switching-based Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network with Quality of

Service (IP-VPN QoS) and Managed Private Line.

Cable

& Wireless branded services would also be offered in India under the Tata

Indicom brand name. Corporate customers in India can now seamlessly access the

Cable & Wireless global network through VSNL's existing domestic and

international access infrastructure. Global network nodes have been set up in

Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai to facilitate the partnership.

The number of companies in the IT, IT-enabled and BFSI space with global

operations are rapidly increasing in the country and so is the requirement for a

highly efficient and redundant international network. The Cable & Wireless-VSNL

partnership aims to address this growing need for high-speed global connectivity

for services such as voice, data, multimedia, videoconferencing and Voice over

Internet Protocol (VoIP).

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