Italtel and NTT Communications Launch Partnership to Accelerate Arcstar UCaaS Delivery in Europe

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Mar 04, 2015, 05:00 ET

BARCELONA, Spain, March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Italtel, a leading company in Next Generation Networks, Value Added Services and global IP-IP communication, and NTT Communications (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (NYSE:NTT), announced today the launch of a new Professional Services Partner Program in Europe.

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Under this program, Italtel will be NTT Com's first channel partner in Europe for delivering NTT Com's Arcstar Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution to large enterprises in Europe. In addition, Italtel will also operate as NTT Com's Value Added Reseller and deliver the Arcstar UCaaS solution to its own customers in Europe.

This partnership will take advantage of Italtel's extensive experience as one of EMEA's largest system integrators to accelerate implementations of the Arcstar UCaaS solution, which is a global, seamless, cloud-based collaboration service for anytime, anywhere communication. As a Professional Services Partner, Italtel's support to NTT Com in procurement, installation and maintenance services will help smoothly deliver Arcstar UCaaS implementations.

Furthermore, as a Value Added Reseller, Italtel can enrich its existing portfolio of communication services, with ready access to a collaboration service like Arcstar UCaaS, which integrates various communication functions, including IP phones, messaging (voice, mail, and instant messaging), telephony, video and web conferencing services.

Camillo Ascione, System Integration Strategy & Marketing at Italtel, said: "We are extremely pleased that NTT Com has elected Italtel as a key partner in Europe. Our strong experience as a system integrator of unified communication solutions for large enterprises has been an important factor in reaching this agreement."

Clive Hamilton, Vice President of Network Services at NTT Europe, said: " NTT Com is very happy to have Italtel as its first channel partner in Europe and as a Value Added a Reseller.Having a specialist partner on the ground, for implementation and integration services will be a great boost to the efficient delivery of a world-class UCaaS solution."

About Italtel Group

Italtel designs, develops, implements solutions for NGN and NGS; Professional Services dedicated to the design and maintenance of networks; IT System Integration Services; Network Integration and migration activities. Italtel counts among its customers more than 40 of the world's top TLC Operators and SPs. In Italy Italtel is also reference partner of Enterprises and Public Sector for the deployment of IP Next-Generation Networks and for the development of multimedia convergent services for their customers. Italtel is present in many countries including France, UK, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Brazil, Peru. http://www.italtel.com.

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company's worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.

More information: http://www.eu.ntt.com | @NTT_Europe | http://www.nttcom.tv

SOURCE ITALTEL S.p.A.