Tellabs and ROOTS signed an agreement that will give ROOTS opportunities to market and sell Tellabs’ SALIX(R) switching solutions in the Asia Pacific region.
In addition to this agreement, ROOTS became a new member of the SALIX SoftLink partners program. This program is a comprehensive partnership of 29 solutions providers that are focused on delivering next-generation converged services.
Tellabs is expanding its business in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets by creating relationships with industry leaders, said Sanjay Patel, vice president and managing director, Tellabs Asia Pacific. Our relationship with ROOTS will help communication service providers in the Asia-Pacific area evolve their networks into one powerful system for new service creation.
The SALIX switching solutions and 7000 series of platforms evolve traditional phone networks by seamlessly uniting voice and data systems into one infrastructure for rapid new service creation.
Tellabs’ leading technologies combine perfectly with to ROOTS Communications’ understanding of the Asia-Pacific market and strength in the telecom industry. Our relationship will help carriers speed the deployment of next-generation solutions and improve service quality and reliability, said Koh Nai Lip, vice president and general manager for ROOTS Communications. The strategic agreement will further strengthen the position of ROOTS Communications as a capable and innovative telecom solutions provider in the region.
The SALIX SoftLink partners program is the first multi-vendor program that offers service providers true standards-based, carrier-class next-generation solutions with proven interoperability. Other members of the program, many of which are already involved in joint testing and marketing efforts, include AccessLan, AP Engines, BroadSoft, Carrier Access Corporation, Cognitronics, Copper Mountain Networks, dynamicsoft, 8×8, Gallery IP Telephony, Iperia, IP Unity, ipVerse, LongBoard Inc., OtelNet, Pactolus, Pingtel, Simplified, Sphere Communications, Sylantro Systems, Tekelec, telecom technologies inc., Ulticom, VocalData, Voyant Technologies, VSYS and Xybridge Technologies.
