NEWS
Nilesat and Tata Communications
partner to improve IP video
experience across North Africa
Tata Communications, a provider of
communications, announced first-
of-its-kind partnership with Nilesat,
the MENA region’s leading satellite
and teleport services provider. The
partnership allows both parties to
leverage infrastructure to ensure
optimal regional media delivery over IP
and enhance regional connectivity with
broadcasters across the globe to serve
MENA broadcaster needs and afford
end users an unparalleled viewing
experience.
Leveraging Tata Communications’ Video
Connect service built on the world’s
most advanced fibre network, Nilesat
will be able to better connect with global
broadcasters for its MENA up linking
to reach local subscribers with stronger
reliability and rich content that is better
routed through fibre. Equally, Tata
Communications will leverage Nilesat’s
infrastructure and coverage area.
Tata Communications’ Video Connect
overcomes the challenges to enable
organisations to seamlessly extend
any existing video network to locations
across the globe, delivering strong live
media transport over IP to enhance the
user’s viewing experience. The platform
offers constant bandwidth availability
and video transmission over diverse
protected fibre paths to ensure seamless
video delivery, while connecting all the
main media hubs and teleports of the
world, including over 100 broadcasters.
Nilesat is the dominant satellite
and teleport services provider in the
MENA region with more than 95% of
households in the region tuning in to
their satellites for receiving broadcast
Brian Morris, Vice President and General
Manager of Global Media and Entertainment
Services, Tata Communications.
content from all over the globe. Content
owners and broadcasters around the
world depend on Nilesat as the primary
route to reach users in this region.
IoT solution provider
WebNMS partners with
Uganda’s Energy Monitoring
WebNMS, a global provider of enterprise IoT platform
and solutions and Energy Monitoring, a growing energy
and industrial solutions provider in Uganda, announced
the companies have partnered to develop end-to-end IoT
applications. This will control and manage energy operations
and centrally monitor performance of remote industrial assets.
The combined solutions will allow enterprises to optimise
energy consumption, streamline workforce tasks, increase
efficiency and optimise operational costs at improved levels.
WebNMS is the Internet of Things division of Zoho Corporation,
a privately held cloud solutions provider. Symphony IoT, from
WebNMS, is an enterprise-scale Internet of Things Platform
that offers customisable, edge-to-cloud solutions to connect
and manage energy and as sets at remote infrastructure. It
also offers a multi-vendor software agent, Symphony EdgeX,
which integrates multiple protocols and enables real-time data
acquisition and local intelligence across the last-mile.
WebNMS is gaining momentum amid system integrators
worldwide, who are keen to tap the potential of enterprise IoT
and resolve custom business challenges while driving product
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Symphony IoT from WebNMS is an enterprise-scale Internet of Things
Platform that manages energy and assets at remote infrastructure.
innovation. WebNMS remains committed to its open platform
approach that enables third-party system integrators and
developers to create their own innovative applications.
Additionally, WebNMS also offers vertical-focussed IoT
applications, specific to B2B markets like telecommunication,
renewable energy, commercial infrastructure, remote sites,
transportation. Energy Monitoring solutions include: Advanced
Smart Metering Solutions, Voltage Optimisation, Energy
Management Systems, LED Lighting Solutions, Industrial Test
Tools. Its flagship brand, EM Solar, provides solutions for the
renewable energy sector.
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