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Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, US and
UK. In addition to geographic expansion,
RingCentral Global Office customers also
now have access to German, French and
UK English language support.
According to IDC, enterprises are
moving forward aggressively with UC&C
deployments driven by voice, video, mo-
bile, business messaging and collabor-
ative apps. Three-quarters of organiza-
tions currently use or plan to use UC&C
solutions during the next 24 months,
and IDC expects a compound annual
growth rate of nearly 24 percent for
total worldwide mobile UC&C for the
period of 2015 to 2019.
“We’re focused on building the
most complete and seamless global
solution for voice, video, conferencing,
messaging and collaboration,” said
Vlad Shmunis, founder, CEO and chair-
man of RingCentral. “We understand
the IT pain points associated with
supporting a multinational business.
Only through the cloud are businesses
able to experience the benefits of a
highly scalable and easy-to-manage
solution that unifies their entire work-
force efficiently and cost effectively.”
PCCW Global
Expands in Africa
PCCW Global,the international op-
erating division of HKT, Hong Kong’s
main telecommunications service
provider, has selected the Djibouti
Data Center (DDC) to help facilitate
network expansion and the provision
of colocation and undersea fiber
cable access services in East Africa.
The Djibouti Data Center has been
built to tier III data center standards
and serves as a major meeting point
for undersea fiber cable systems.
“The DDC is an important ele-
ment of our wider pan-African de-
velopment and expansion plans,”
Jordick Wong, senior vice president,
product and vendor management,
PCCW Global. “The addition of AAE-1
to PCCW Global’s existing undersea
fiber cable assets in the region will
enable us to provide even more
robust services, along with lower la-
tency and increased diversity, boosting
services levels for our customers.”
He added, “AAE-1 will stretch ap-
proximately 25,000kms and employ
100Gbps technology, with a capacity
of more than 40 terabits to provide
customers with low-latency and direct
connectivity around the world.”
The AAE-1 system will connect Dji-
bouti with Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cam-
bodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,
Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE,
Qatar, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
Greece, Italy and France.
The DDC is uniquely positioned in
East Africa and will enable PCCW Glob-
al to establish cross-connect and co-
location facilities directly adjacent to
Djibouti Telecom’s cable landing sta-
tions. In addition to supporting AAE-1
in the near future, the DDC provides
access to fiber-cable systems such
as EIG, EASSy, Aden-Djibouti,
and Ethiopia-Djibouti.
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