November 24, 2020

PCCW Global, a leading international communications service provider, today announced a new collaboration with RingCentral, a leading provider of cloud-based unified communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions for global enterprises, to provide on-demand private network connections to RingCentral’s global unified communication services.

With PCCW Global’s Console Connect Software Defined Interconnection® platform, which is available via more than 350 data centers globally, enterprises can establish on-demand private network connections to RingCentral’s global unified communication services. Some enterprises in industries such as healthcare, financial services, and education benefit from networks with high availability and superior quality to access RingCentral’s services and ensure business continuity. Console Connect meets this demand and a service-level agreement guarantees the quality of service.

Once RingCentral customers are connected to the Console Connect platform, they can instantly establish private connections between their enterprise sites and RingCentral cloud services worldwide through the Console Connect web portal. Connection bandwidth can be changed instantaneously as required to meet rapidly changing business demands.

Mr. Amir Hameed, Vice President of Global Solutions Engineering, RingCentral, said, “The rapid growth in the number of companies adopting RingCentral Global Office is creating opportunities for our partners, from integrating applications and services to providing new network connection services. PCCW Global’s Console Connect provides customers with the ability to utilize private network connections for their business communications by adding additional control and management capabilities. At RingCentral we are focused on ensuring our customers have the flexible options they need for effective business communications.”

As businesses accelerate their adoption of cloud-based technology and unified communications solutions, the availability of RingCentral cloud-based communication services on the Console Connect platform will provide them with greater network flexibility and reach.

Mr. Michael Glynn, Vice President of Digital Automated Innovation, PCCW Global, said, “We are excited to integrate with RingCentral platform to provide fast, simple and secure connections to RingCentral Cloud. The integration will support the growing requirements of remote workers using RingCentral’s cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions across the world.”