GENBAND Partners with Wipro; Enhances Global Reseller Program
Plano, TX, June 1, 2009 - GENBAND Inc., a market-leading developer of next-generation IP infrastructure solutions, today announced that Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East IT Business Unit of Wipro Limited, will support and distribute GENBAND IP gateway solutions as a strategic reseller and system integrator partner. With the addition of Wipro, GENBAND also announced enhancements to its Global Reseller Program, which will develop and implement global partner marketing programs and manage partner support and training.
The GENBAND Global Reseller Program is increasing focus on distributors that primarily reach national and regional service providers and carriers in emerging markets. GENBAND also distributes its IP infrastructure solutions to the world’s largest telecommunication service providers through its global sales team as well as via numerous partnerships with leading telecom equipment manufacturers.
Headquartered in Bangalore, India, Wipro Infotech is the top Network Integration Company in the country. Wipro offers a 360 degree service portfolio spanning the entire IT lifecycle. As a leading System Integrator, Wipro manages design, rollout and post deployment support for major telecommunications networks in India and around the world. They are also experts in service delivery platforms and network security.
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. T K Padmanabha, General Manager, Telecom Networking Integration, Wipro Infotech said: “We are pleased to join with GENBAND to transform operator networks with IP enhancements and security. Our customers appreciate value-added solutions like GENBAND’s, which offer seamless migration without the high costs of total equipment replacement.”
“Wipro’s services, breadth and strategic market reach is world class, and we are very pleased to partner with them to transform telecommunications networks with IP,” said Zane Long, Vice President of the Global Reseller Group at GENBAND. “GENBAND has been growing rapidly, in part, due to an expanding team of strategic reseller partners around the globe like Wipro. We’re enhancing our global reseller program to fuel this momentum and provide our partners the best materials, support and training for selling our solutions.”
GENBAND’s resellers have access to all company products and solutions with an initial focus on the G2™ Compact Gateway, the G6® Universal Gateway and the S-Series products (session border controller and security gateways).
With extensive security, policy enforcement and session management capabilities, GENBAND's S3™ Session Border Controller brings operators advanced performance at IP network borders. GENBAND’s S2™ Security Gateway provides the security, QoS and IP mobility required to manage revenue-generating, new voice and multimedia sessions for all IP-based applications, including: Femtocell, Voice over WiMAX, Voice over WiFi/WLAN access, Secured VoIP Access (UNI), Secured IP Network Interconnect or VoIP Peering (NNI), Secured IM, Presence, Messaging, Gaming, and IPTV.
The G2 Compact Gateway is a carrier class, multipurpose gateway purpose-built for highly reliable VoIP and provides connectivity at the border between the IP and TDM/circuit switched networks. The G6 Universal Gateway simultaneously supports multiple IP service architectures and is deployed in ILEC, PTT, RLEC, CLEC, and MSO networks worldwide.
About Wipro Infotech
Wipro Infotech, a division of the US$5 billion Wipro Limited, provides enterprise customers with high value Information Technology Products, Software Services, Solutions and Consulting Services in India and the Middle East. Headquartered at Bangalore, Wipro Infotech serves customers in India through a network of 22 offices and 170 service locations across the country. It also has regional offices across the Middle East serving the region. For more information, please visit, http://www.wipro.in/
About GENBAND
GENBAND is a global leader and innovator of next generation IP media, session border and fixed mobile convergence security solutions deployed in over half of the world’s 100 largest service providers. These high-performance gateway solutions are at the core of fixed and mobile networks around the world - evolving, securing and enhancing communications networks. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, GENBAND has Centers of Excellence in Brazil, China, Maryland, Massachusetts and Texas, and serves customers and partners in more than 80 countries.
Kim Lee
GENBAND Inc.
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kim.lee@genband.com
Frank Puglia
GENBAND Inc.
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