Dialog ties with Cisco

Jayantha DE SILVA

Dialog has joined hands with Cisco Systems to bring Cisco WebEx, the world's leading platform for Rich Media conferencing and collaboration. The venture will help Dialog customers to streamline and expand their reach in business communications.

Cisco WebEx provides on-demand collaboration,online meeting, web conferencing and video conferencing applications for medium to large scale organisations, helping to fulfil B2B (Business to Business) and B2C (Business to Consumer) communication needs of companies.

Dialog Axiata PLC will be the exclusive telecommunications service provider in Sri Lanka to offer this service, over the next two years.

"In present context, the technological landscape has increased in volume. This is evident by data processing which is in Terra Bites,"said Nalaka Wijebandara,Head Enterprise Development, Dialog Enterprise. "Clout is there to stay." He emphasized on enterprise mobility which has taken an upswing."Brand loyalty to manage time lines is a new challenge," he observed, adding that Sri Lankans work for USA entities which they have not seen.

"We are excited to collaborate with Dialog Axiata to bring enterprise services to customers in Sri Lanka. With an industry leading portfolio of technology solutions and services, Cisco will work to enhance its relationship with Dialog to bring a wider set of managed services to the market, in the future," said Sanjay Rohatgi, Senior Vice President and Head - Service Provider business, Cisco India and SAARC.

Sandeep Mehra,Vice President, Cisco WebEx said, "This is a significant opportunity for businesses in Sri Lanka looking to address the changing needs of workspace collaboration as well as to enhance interaction and collaboration with their customers and partners. Through Dialog, customers will have access to the world's most preferred Rich Media Conferencing Application, enhancing productivity and reducing costs associated with lost cycles, deferred decisions, and unnecessary travel."

"We are pleased to collaborate with Cisco, a global leader in networking and communications technology. Cisco WebEx will enable Dialog to offer emerging communications strategies and solutions to Sri Lankan businesses; giving them the edge to compete not only domestically but also globally," said Jeremy Huxtable,Chief Officer Dialog Enterprise.

Dialog Axiata is Sri Lanka's largest mobile service provider with the greatest number of subscribers and a growing base of over 2,000 GSM and 1,200 3G base stations.

Dialog Axiata PLC, a subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata), operates Sri Lanka's largest and fastest growing mobile telecommunications network. The company is also one of the largest listed companies on the Colombo Stock Exchange in terms of market capitalization.