Airtel Launches Wholesale Services For Global Players

vIndianz.com (Aug. 18, 2009) — Bharti Airtel unveils new global wholesale service portfolio for telcos across the world. This service enables 50 countries across five continents to access its telecom services.

The company has invested over $500 million to expand its connectivity by building cable capacity, network infrastructure and international points of presences.

Bharti Airtel’s wholesale portfolio will offer MPLS, Ethernet, IP and International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC) services to global carriers through Bharti Airtel’s global network with a reach to 50 countries.

The portfolio includes solutions for voice and data connectivity, collaboration services, co-location, carrier outsourcing and content distribution through its next-generation high speed submarine network.

“From being a regional partner for foreign carriers, Bharti is now uniquely poised to serve global carriers to and from any part of the globe,” said David Nishball, President enterprise services of Bharti Airtel at the time of launch in Singapore.

Airtel’s global network consists of SMW4, i2i- which is fully owned, APCN2, c2c, JUCN, TGN, TAT14, Apollo, Hibernia. This has been coupled with investments in new cable systems including AAG, Unity North, EIG, IMEWE, EASSy and a couple more in the fray. This move ensures at least three cables on all major routes thereby providing flexibility and readily available restoration.

The network comprises of submarine networks, backhaul networks and the POPs which are built with the next-generation equipments.

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