OrisTel Coriant Partnership

News Release
OrisTel Appointed Regional Sales Partner by Coriant
to Distribute Smart Router and Packet Optical Networking Products
Partnership taps into exponential growth in bandwidth demand
and evolving end-user needs in Asia Pacific
Singapore, 2 December 2014 — Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST
Electronics) announced today that its telecom systems integration arm, OrisTel
Systems Pte Ltd (OrisTel), has been appointed by Coriant as a regional sales partner
for the distribution of its smart router and packet optical networking products to
telecom service providers, data centre operators, financial services industry, and
government and enterprise customers in the Asia Pacific region.
OrisTel will leverage the synergies derived from ST Electronics’ extensive customer
base and Coriant’s high-performance, coherent 100G+ transport solutions and
software-defined, optical layer intelligence to deliver high-speed next generation
networks that cater to a new generation of dynamic services and applications in the
region.
“Coriant is growing and investing in Asia Pacific, and we thank our sales partners for
much of this success. Partnering with OrisTel provides an opportunity to expand into
additional markets and service new customers with our intelligent optical transport and
multiservice aggregation solutions. We are pleased to add OrisTel to our Coriant
PartnerPlus Program and look forward to a prosperous relationship.”
~ Tapani SAIRANEN
Senior Vice President,
Customer Operations, Asia Pacific, Coriant
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Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited
24 Ang Mo Kio Street 65, Singapore 569061
T: (65) 6481 8888 F: (65) 6482 1079
www.stengg.com
(Regn. No.: 196900084E)
Empowering thru’ innovation
“We are excited about the new partnership with an industry leader like Coriant, whose
innovative solutions, including its high-density packet optical transport platform with a
hybrid optical and electrical switching fabric, will allow us to better meet the efficiency,
flexibility and scalability needs of our customers and their end-users.”
~ GOH Wai Pheng
SVP/General Manager, OrisTel Systems &
Deputy President, ST Electronics (Satcom & Sensor Systems)
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OrisTel will be showcasing Coriant’s latest Packet Optical Transport Platform – an
integrated transport and multiservice delivery-solution at the upcoming Carrier
Ethernet APAC 2014 from 3-4 December 2014 at Suntec, Singapore, Level 3.
The exhibition is held in conjunction with two conferences – Carrier Ethernet APAC
2014 and SDN & NFV Asia - at the same venue. Registration is free for operators.
For more information, please visit www.carrierethernetapac.com
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Coriant, founded as an independent company in 2013, is an industry-leading supplier
of dynamic metro-to-core transport solutions. We serve over 500 customers globally,
including 90% of the world's top 50 service providers. Our packet optical, edge router
and Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions enable mobile and fixed line
operators to reduce network complexity, increase service velocity, and improve
resource utilization as transport networks scale in response to a new generation of
high-bandwidth services and applications. Coriant was formed from the distinguished
technology heritage and proven networking expertise of Nokia Siemens Networks
Optical Networks, Tellabs, and Sycamore Networks. The company operates worldwide
in more than 48 countries, with R&D centers in Asia, Germany, Portugal, Finland,
Canada and the United States, as well as a state-of-the-art production center in Berlin,
Germany. Learn more at www.coriant.com.
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OrisTel Systems, a member of the ST Electronics Group, addresses the complex telecom
network infrastructure needs of telecom operators, government and utility customers across
the Asia-Pacific region. As a regional distributor and systems integration partner of several
leading-edge telecom equipment manufacturers, OrisTel brings the combined resources and
expertise of ST Electronics and product partners to deliver best-in-class telecom solutions of
the highest quality to its customers. For more information, please visit www.oristel.com.sg.
ST Electronics (Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited), the electronics arm of
ST Engineering, delivers innovative system solutions to government, commercial, defence,
and industrial customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 20 countries, ST
Electronics markets its solutions to more than 100 countries internationally. It specialises in the
design, development and integration of advanced electronics and communications systems,
such as broadband radio frequency and satellite communication, e-Government solutions,
information communications technologies and IT, rail and traffic management, real-time
command and control, modelling and simulation, eLearning & interactive digital media, training
services, intelligent building management and information security. For more information,
please visit www.stee.stengg.com.
Media Contact:
Wendy Ong
Manager, Corporate Communications
ST Electronics
Tel:(65) 6413 1881 / 9770 9844
Email: wendyong@stee.stengg.com
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