IBM has opened Telecom Solutions Lab in Moscow, its first solutions center for telecommunications companies in Central and Eastern Europe, the firm reported last week at a news conference.
The new research and development facility will allow IBM and its partners to develop, test and deploy software services demanded by client telecom companies. The lab is aimed at serving network service providers as well as network equipment producers, independent software vendors and various Internet companies.
The new lab will form part of a wider network of ten such centers that IBM has already opened worldwide. The Russian IBM office also hopes that the Telecom Solutions Lab will foster cooperation between IBM and Skolkovo, the state run innovation hub under construction near Moscow. “The lab that we open today is a forerunner of what we are going to do in Skolkovo,” Kirill Kornilyev, head of IBM Russia, told Russian news agency RIA Novosti at the opening ceremony.
Russian national telecommunication operator Rostelecom could be the first to use the IBM Telecom Solutions Lab. Rostelecom plans to integrate IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) solutions to develop, test, roll out and support its Internet services.
Rostelecom and IBM previously announced their cooperation for the development of infrastructure to provide e-government services.
Sources: RIA Novosti, ComNews.ru
