SingTel teams with Riverbed to accelerate WAN development

In a joint press release, Riverbed Technology and Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) have announced they will collaborate to provide the telco’s Traffic Optimisation and Profiling Service Application Accelerator (TOPS AA) service using Riverbed’s Wide Area Networks (WAN) optimisation solutions. The Singaporean operator’s TOPS AA product is designed to speed up data delivery over WANs, and in the process improve the performance and speed of corporate applications such as e-mail, data back-up, Web browsing, document sharing and management, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), Riverbed said. The new solution will be fully managed by SingTel, and will be offered with the option of utility-based pricing to allow users to avoid heavy upfront investments, yet provide scalability to meet future business growth.