Viettel Solutions, a member of the Military Industry and Telecoms Group, signed a strategic business partnership agreement, officially becoming the first and only Managed Service Provider of F5 Networks in the Vietnamese market.
On May 25, 2023, Viettel Solutions and F5 Networks signed a strategic business partnership (MSP) agreement. Representing Viettel Solutions was Mr. Nguyen Manh Ho, CEO, and representing F5 Networks was Mr. Bok Hwee Khoo, Senior Chief Customer Officer for Asia-Pacific region.
This is an vital event for Viettel as its partners with one of the world's leading companies in providing security devices/solutions, improving the performance and availability of web applications, servers, cloud computing resources, and data storage devices.
Through this contract, Viettel Solutions officially becomes the first and only managed service provider of F5 Networks in the Vietnamese market. With the strategic partnership, the two parties will strengthen their partnership, in which Viettel will distribute F5 Networks' products and services to its customers in Vietnam and in the countries where Viettel is investing. The two parties will also cooperate in organizing training programs and in-depth seminars on technology and digital transformation to exchange knowledge, improve capabilities, and jointly develop each other's product and service ecosystems.
Currently, Viettel Solutions has successfully integrated and completed the performance evaluation of the F5 BIG-IP virtual product on the Viettel Cloud infrastructure and completed the testing of features as well as building documentation for setting up and configuring 03 services Load Balancer, Web Application Firewall - WAF, Denial of Service Protection - DoS Layer 7). In addition, Viettel Solutions has also begun to implement outreach, grasp customer needs, promote F5 product business in the form of services (MSP), and continue to seek other opportunities within the scope of strategic comprehensive cooperation.
Previously in March 2023, at the MWC 2023 event - the largest global mobile conference, Viettel Solutions and F5 Networks also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the aim of expanding the capacity to provide products and services, promoting the development of ecosystems and business models of both sides. At the same time, the integration of solutions can help Viettel Solutions easily access, meet customer needs and keep up with the latest technology trends.
F5 Networks is a leading global provider of application delivery network (ADN) devices and solutions founded in 1996, headquartered in Washington, USA. F5 Networks' technologies focus on distributing, securing, improving performance, and increasing availability of web applications, servers, cloud resources, data storage devices, and other network components.