Hutch goes for Thakral One's IT solutions

Sri Lanka, along with many other developing markets, has been aligning with the mobile data access to the handset landscape especially with feature phones on pre-paid packages while an increasing number of Sri Lankans are using mobile phones to access the internet.

All operators, including Hutchinson Telecom Lanka (Hutch), have had to upgrade their infrastructure to meet the new communication needs.

This meant upgrading their infrastructure to offer more advanced features to expand with the change in market demands.

As an immediate approach to meet these new needs, Hutch decided to upgrade their basic reload application run on a physical data centred environment to a virtual environment with more advanced features and the internet access infrastructure to effectively manage the growth of 3G data traffic to and from their system.

After a thorough evaluation of the different solutions available from a multitude of IT service providers in the market, Hutch decided to use RedHat Enterprise Virtualisation for upgrading the Reload application and an end-to-end Juniper Network solution to upgrade their internet infrastructure.

As an outcome of the same stringent evaluation process, Hutch picked Thakral One which is a leading technology consulting and implementation partner for infrastructure solutions and services in Sri Lanka and in 13 other countries across Asia, to carry out the end-to-end implementation.