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Etisalat Secures Managed WAN Deals From Leading Banks And Financial Institutions In The UAE |
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Providing a robust head start to the New Year, Etisalat announced that it has secured deals for 1000+ Managed WAN sites, primarily from Banking and financial institution customers, in the closing months of 2010. The accelerated momentum showcases a rapid adoption of the Managed WAN service across the UAE. Etisalat had earlier announced a ground breaking Managed WAN deal with Emirates NBD, during GITEX. The Managed WAN orders have been placed by majority of premier banks in the UAE. Etisalat will provide these banks with a one stop solution for links, routers and onsite support through its Managed WAN service. Etisalat will transition the bank’s existing ATM network on leased line with an all encompassing IP-VPN Solution, to offer a fully redundant and robust managed infrastructure with proactive monitoring and faster issue resolution. Commenting on the deals, Abdulla Hashim, Senior Vice President, Business Solutions, Etisalat said, "The accelerated pace of Managed WAN deals are a substantiation of Etisalat’s Managed Services strategy that focuses on providing collaborative ICT solutions to our customers. Outsourced managed services enable organizations to focus on their core competencies while reducing their total cost of IT ownership. Etisalat is a dominant and indisputable leader in Managed services arena and these deals demonstrate of our commitment to provide best of managed ICT services to our customers. Etisalat aims to bring great value to organizations with our strong delivery capacity, a modern and reliable infrastructure, ownership of a superior network and robust processes." The Managed WAN service will provide highest levels of performance, reliability and stability through comprehensive and proactive on-site support to banks. Etisalat’s Managed WAN service provides proactive monitoring and management of customer’s network infrastructure, thereby enabling consistent network availability and performance. Etisalat also provides a service dashboard, through a dedicated online web portal, where customers are able to access and view their network health status through wide-ranging report parameters - such device availability, CPU utilization, bandwidth utilization, traffic utilization, to name a few. "Etisalat has invested in developing a 24x7 state-of-the-art, customer network operations center (CNOC), a collaborative IT infrastructure and superior knowledge capital manned by certified IT professionals, to offer a combination of flexible, secure services and comprehensive support to our customers. Given the shortage of IT skills in the region, we believe that we can guide businesses to achieve the benefits of productivity and efficiency through our Managed WAN offering," added Mr. Hashim. Etisalat’s Managed Services portfolio has a wide variety of solutions ranging from Managed WAN Services, Managed Security services, Hosting Infrastructure, Managed Storage, Business Continuity /Disaster Recovery services and Managed Infrastructure services.
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