Transcelestial, a last-mile internet distribution startup based in Singapore, said it has partnered with Exclusive Networks, a digital infrastructure distributor, to expand its operations into Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Macau, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The Transcelestial team / Photo credit: Transcelestial
Under the partnership, Exclusive Networks will sell Transcelestial’s solutions to its current customer base of mobile network operators, internet service providers, and enterprises in all ten markets.
Founded in 2016, Transcelestial’s laser communications tech makes it possible to beam fiber-grade Internet without the need for any wires between buildings, cell towers or street-level poles. This can be implemented in a fraction of the time and cost of physical fiber cables.
Charles Han, Transcelestial’s company’s newly appointed global channel strategy and program lead, and Sunny Tham, its global channel sales lead, will spearhead the company’s expansion plan. Han has previously held senior leadership roles at VMware, Cisco, and Citrix. Meanwhile Tham has over 20 years of experience in the Asia-Pacific point-to-point wireless connectivity market.
Exclusive Networks provides cloud and cybersecurity services. Its ‘local sale, global scale’ model serves clients with international reach via a single point of contact.
“Exclusive Networks is putting its trust and weight into this partnership to address what Covid-19 has made most urgent in the telecom industry – an accelerated rollout of transformational network upgrades,” said Brad Gray, senior vice president of APAC at Exclusive Networks. “We see a distinct and timely opportunity here for first-movers to lead the charge and define the future of connectivity.”
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Transcelestial is backed by investors including Wavemaker Partners, EDBI, Airbus Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Cap Vista, Seeds Capital, Entrepreneur First, Partech Ventures, 500 Startups, AirTree Ventures, Tekton Ventures, SGInnovate, SparkLabs Global Ventures. Its investors also include Michael Siebel, CEO of Y-Combinator and co-founder of Twitch, among others.
Correction (November 25, 2:30p.m. SGT): The article has been corrected to reflect the exact tech that Transcelestial uses.
Editing by Collin Furtado
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