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PCCW Global will provide access to its • Easier access to otherwise complicated functional distribution to bring it to the
international IoT network, fabric and network, service, devices, and international market. IoT will deliver
global services, while SURE Universal will applications, enabling the full value of tremendous value and benefits to the
concentrate on delivering its IoT platform, IoT to be realized by end-users medical industry, especially in these
associated applications and data. The goal • Access to a community of leading unique times.” Dr. Viktor Ariel, CEO, SURE
is to rapidly provide best-in-class, end-to- solution providers and suppliers to Universal, said, “SURE Universal is driven
end IoT home care solutions worldwide. jointly promote the use of IoT solutions to provide exceptional, standardized and
The PCCW Global IoT Ecosystem Mr. Craig Price, Senior Vice President, compliant IoT solutions for home care
Partnership Program delivers: Mobility Products and Marketing, and we are honoured to be partnering with
• An opportunity for IT, cloud, telecom, and PCCW Global, said, “We are delighted PCCW Global in order to rapidly deliver an
industry solution providers to develop to collaborate with SURE Universal to urgently-needed home care IoT solution
solutions for the rapidly-growing IoT power its home care solution by providing worldwide.”
market worldwide the network, technical know-how, and

Console Connect Now Live in all Global Switch Data Centers Worldwide

PCCW Global announced that its
Console Connect Software-Defined
Interconnection® (SDI®) platform is now
available in many more data centers via
an extended collaboration with Global
Switch, a leading owner, operator and
developer of large-scale carrier and cloud
neutral data centers in Europe and Asia
Pacific. Global Switch owns and operates
13 data centers centrally located in Tier
1 cities, offering a total of 390,000 sq. m.
of highly resilient technical space and
hosting some of the world’s largest cloud
providers, hyperscalers and enterprise
customers. The company works with Hong Kong, in addition to the pre-existing 3,000 cities and 160 countries. Global
all industry verticals and segments facility in Singapore’s Tai Seng data Switch customers will be able to instantly
and provides tailored solutions to meet center. Mr. Michael Glynn, Vice President access this ecosystem of clouds, SaaS
each customer’s specific needs, whilst of Digital Automated Innovation, PCCW providers, and network, and seamlessly
also ensuring the availability of a wide Global, said, “We are delighted to extend connect to over 300 data centers worldwide
range of high-performance interconnect our collaboration with Global Switch by through Console Connect. The platform
solutions from leading players such as bringing the Console Connect platform provides users with the redundancy and
Console Connect. Following the highly into all of its data centers worldwide. The flexibility to scale their businesses on
successful launch of Console Connect in addition of eight on-net data centers in demand at any Global Switch data center,
Global Switch’s Singapore Tai Seng data Europe forms part of a major expansion and have access to the PCCW Global
center in 2019, the platform has now been plan for the platform across the region, physical network, which is separate to the
extended to all Global Switch locations and while the new facilities in Sydney and Hong public Internet and offers uncontended and
is immediately available. The collaboration Kong further consolidates our position as a highly redundant core connectivity with
gives Console Connect users an extensive market leader for on-demand fabric in Asia multiple diverse paths between countries.
choice of on-net data centers and cloud Pacific.” The Console Connect network- Mr. Paul Selwood, Group Director, Strategic
access points in Europe’s largest and most as-a-service platform is fully integrated Accounts and Networks, Global Switch,
interconnected data center hubs - London, with the world’s leading cloud, SaaS, IoT said, “We are extremely excited that the
Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris. It also and IX providers, including Google Cloud, Console Connect platform is available at
brings the Console Connect platform to AWS, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle all of our data centers. Our customers will
Madrid, Spain, one of the most important Cloud, Alibaba, Tencent and NAVER Cloud. be able to securely access services from
gateways to Latin America, as well as The automated Console Connect fabric any cloud or SaaS provider, connect to
other major European markets. In Asia is underpinned by PCCW Global’s leading business-critical applications with ease,
Pacific, Console Connect is available at the IP backbone and one of the largest MPLS and scale connections up and down on-
Global Switch data centers in Sydney and networks in the world, spanning more than demand.”

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