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“PCCW Global has significant experience in providing
both full fiber infrastructure and broadband services
to both business and end users across the United
Kingdom. Optify Smart Fibre Infrastructure has already
been deployed at a number of sites, delivering ultrafast
broadband to users as well as providing the foundation
for a growing range of smart building technology.”
Education is changing rapidly, but many institutions
still seek high-quality and cost-effective connectivity.
With services increasingly delivered online and
students themselves required to use connected
devices in the classroom, it is imperative to deliver
new services and improve the educational experience
to these areas. There is also a growing demand in the
education sector for technology to increase efficiency,
to save not only operating costs but also to improve services, enabling cost effective and efficient procurement decisions to be
a building’s environmental credentials. The CCS made. Being a named supplier, PCCW Global is now perfectly placed to deliver
framework provides a way for providers to deliver these new and revolutionary technologies into this sector.

PCCW Global’s SDI Platform and NAVER Business Platform Collaborate to

Deliver On-Demand, Private Global Connectivity and Cloud to Korean and
Global MNCs

PCCW Global, the international operating latency connections on-demand to access an extensive portfolio of cloud services
division of HKT, Hong Kong’s premier their business-critical applications, and a growing international business.
telecommunications service provider, and can connect their global customer We are very excited to work together to
and NAVER Business Platform (NBP), the networks in seconds. The simple-to- jointly deliver a superior cloud networking
leading IT Infrastructure and cloud services use automation software eliminates the experience on our global SDI® platform.
provider in South Korea providing a broad complexity of network configuration and Once established on our ecosystem it will
spectrum of IT services and public cloud delivers enhanced performance, visibility, expand NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM not only
services via the NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM, monitoring, and security. Console Connect locally in our multi-presence data centers
today announced a bilateral interconnect delivers an easy and affordable way to in Seoul but to over 37 countries on our
collaboration to provide South Korean connect to cloud-based applications, platform. We are running one of the largest
and multi-national enterprises direct, partners, IT infrastructure and the world’s on-demand, self-provisioning software-
on-demand connections to the NAVER major cloud hosting services. The platform defined interconnection platforms in the
Business Platform with PCCW Global’s spans over 37 countries and interconnects world and have over 22TB of fiber capacity
Console Connect Software-Defined over 120 data centers, leveraging the globally which is a key benefit to any
Interconnection® (SDI®) platform. Console worldwide PCCW Global MPLS network, NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM customer that
Connect can provide NBP customers which is physically separate to the public is looking for low latency, resilient, secure,
with fast, low-latency and secure direct Internet and features an uncontended, instant connections back into the NAVER
connectivity delivered over PCCW Global’s highly resilient and redundant core network CLOUD PLATFORM.” Mr. KwangPyo Hong,
MPLS network. NBP is South Korea’s with multiple low-latency paths between Head of Global Business, NAVER Business
leading IT and cloud service provider with countries. To support the growing trend for Platform, said, “Console Connect by PCCW
global data centers and cloud services in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud deployments, Global enables NAVER Business Platform
six countries around the world spanning customers are also able to use the to further upgrade the global business of
Asia, Europe and the Americas. NBP is the platform and PCCW Global’s network NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM. As multi-cloud
cloud and IT infrastructure subsidiary of to implement on-demand connectivity has been gaining great momentum, reliable
NAVER Corporation (market capitalization between global data centers and all other and convenient network connectivity
of US$16.2B). NAVER Corporation is a major cloud on-ramp partners, including with global data centers is becoming
global ICT that runs South Korea’s largest AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure, an essential element of cloud services.
web search engine and manages global IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud, NAVER Business Platform will continue to
mobile services such as LINE Messenger. Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Mr. expand its service to meet diverse needs of
Through collaboration and interconnection Michael Glynn, PCCW Global’s Vice customers from all over the world.”
with Console Connect, NBP customers are President of Digital Automated Innovation,
now able to provision fast, private, low said, “NAVER Business Platform has

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