SLT-MOBITEL and John Keells strengthen 2-decade partnership

SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise has signed a new agreement with John Keells Group, the largest conglomerate listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, to provide Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Microsoft Azure Stack services, further building upon a successful two-decade partnership.

The agreement was recently exchanged between Janaka Abeysinghe, Chief Executive Officer, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, and Ramesh Shanmuganathan, Group Chief Information Officer and CEO, John Keells IT, and other officials from both organizations were also present at the signing ceremony.

Under the new agreement, SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise will implement its advanced SD-WAN solution across multiple locations of the John Keells Group, ensuring a highly flexible and secure networking infrastructure, optimising connectivity, and improving application performance and reliability for their critical business operations. Additionally, by onboarding the Microsoft Azure Stack service, SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise offers the John Keells Group enhanced scalability, agility, and cost efficiency in deploying and managing their applications and workloads.

John Keells Group’s selection of SLT-MOBITEL Enterprise to roll out the services demonstrates the foresight of both organisations to leverage advanced technology solutions to drive business growth and enhance operational efficiency.