Cisco and Qwilt have fashioned a brand new strategic partnership with Turkcell, the main digital operator in Turkiye. The collaboration goals to boost the standard and supply capability of digital content material and purposes, bringing superior streaming experiences and sooner knowledge supply to Turkcell’s 38.2 million cell customers and three.1 million mounted broadband clients, effectively supporting rising knowledge calls for.
Turkcell’s adoption of Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud for Content material Supply platform is powered by Open Caching and enabled with Cisco’s edge computing and networking infrastructure. The joint resolution is deeply embedded and totally built-in into Turkcell’s community edge, empowering the environment friendly dealing with of bigger knowledge volumes and enhancing the general subscriber expertise. With community protection extending to 99% of Turkiye via 9,000 towers, this deployment prompts Open Caching providers at a number of distributed factors of presence (PoPs), equipping Turkcell to supply content material publishers with the instruments they should ship the best high quality content material all through Turkiye.
This partnership makes Turkiye a content material and Web hub and helps Turkcell Superonline’s imaginative and prescient of remodeling ”the Silk Highway into the Fiber Highway.” Collaboration positions Turkcell on the forefront of content material supply, guaranteeing high-quality streaming and reinforcing its position as Turkiye’s main digital providers supplier.
Emre Erdem, Basic Supervisor of Turkcell Superonline, commented: “Turkiye’s place as a digital bridge between East and West is getting stronger. By embracing Cisco and Qwilt’s Open Edge mannequin, we’re fortifying our community to satisfy the calls for of content material publishers, guaranteeing Turkiye’s and the area’s digital inhabitants stays consistently linked, entertained, and knowledgeable. Our fiber roll-out technique has enabled us to supply fiber web to over 5.7 million residence passes throughout 28 cities in Turkiye, and we proceed our investments to develop our infrastructure additional. Moreover, in our new technology knowledge facilities, backed by worldwide Tier 3 certifications, we offer our clients with sooner and better high quality entry to international content material. By attracting extra corporations, Turkiye’s digital panorama will change for the higher. This inflow of consideration will strengthen our current ecosystem and function a vital step in the direction of Turkcell Superonline’s imaginative and prescient of positioning Turkiye because the web and content material hub of area and reworking the Silk Highway into the Fiber Highway”.
Elif Yenihankaya, Director, Community Capabilities at Turkcell, commented: “Persevering with its dedication to excellence, Turkcell is constantly evolving its community infrastructure. Via strategic collaboration with Cisco and Qwilt, we’ll prolong our scope and proceed to supply distinctive digital experiences to each residential and enterprise clients throughout Turkiye. This deployment will enable us to satisfy the rising bandwidth calls for and guarantee a superior high quality of expertise for our valued clients. We’re excited concerning the future and anticipate additional partnerships with content material publishers, providing enhanced capability and consistency in content material supply throughout Turkiye.”
Theodore Tzevelekis, VP, Cisco, stated: “Our Open Edge resolution, in collaboration with Qwilt, positions Turkcell instantly throughout the content material supply worth chain and will increase their monetization alternatives. This partnership empowers Turkcell to supply high-quality streaming experiences for its clients and lays the muse for future edge computing purposes. We’re delighted to welcome Turkcell to affix our international partnership of service suppliers and are desperate to contribute to delivering the best high quality digital experiences to subscribers throughout Turkiye.”
Alon Maor, CEO at Qwilt, stated: “Turkcell’s partnership marks the newest milestone in our mission to construct the world’s largest, highest-performing all-edge community. This collaboration ensures seamless digital service supply to tens of millions of customers in Turkiye. Our Open Edge CDN is embedded instantly on the community edge, nearer to end-users than conventional CDNs, guaranteeing customers throughout the nation expertise the best high quality and quickest supply for streaming video, on-line video games, social media, or downloading large information. This partnership underscores Turkcell’s dedication to investing in cutting-edge options and solidifies its place as Turkiye’s premier digital providers supplier.”
Over 175 service suppliers and content material publishers have joined along with Qwilt to implement the Open Edge of their networks, collectively serving over one billion distinctive subscribers worldwide. They embrace Verizon in North America, TIM Brazil and Telecom Argentina in Latin America, Airtel in India, J:COM, Hyperlink Internet and PROEN in Asia-Pacific, BT within the UK, and Fastweb, Telefónica and Vodafone in EMEA. Qwilt additionally collaborates with 5 out of the highest six US media corporations to ship their content material through Qwilt’s international federated community.
