SAN FRANCISCO and SINGAPORE -- Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD) and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), Asia's leading communications group, announced today that they are collaborating to provide the SingTel Traffic Optimization and Profiling Service Application Accelerator (TOPS AA) service based on Riverbed's WAN optimization solutions.
The SingTel TOPS AA solution accelerates the delivery of data over Wide Area Networks (WAN), improving the performance and speed of corporate applications such as e-mail, data back-up, web browsing, document sharing and management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
As the TOPS AA solution is hosted and fully managed by SingTel, customers need not worry about technology obsolescence, system upgrades and the ongoing cost of manpower to manage complex network infrastructure. It is offered with the option of utility-based pricing to allow customers to avoid heavy upfront investments during this period of economic downturn, and yet flexibly scale to meet growing business needs.
Bill Chang, SingTel's Executive Vice President of Business, said, "SingTel is excited to work with Riverbed® to enable companies to maximize the use of their international bandwidth and enjoy superior performance for their inter-office applications. The TOPS AA service overcomes the issues of long distance communications to allow customers with offices around the world to do business like never before."
Riverbed Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: RVBD)
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) (OTC: SGTJY)