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Clients & Services

Private Equity & Tech/Infrastructure Funds
M&A due diligence 
  • Review of technical and commercial modeling assumptions as a baseline for investment and financial analysis
  • Techno/commercial due diligence, as technology correlates and impacts existing and future product strategies, commercials and value creation
  • Retention rates, SLA performance, and related KPI's
  • Competitive positioning
  • Synergy analysis, includes overlap, complement, tech leverage, sales leverage, partnerships leverage, etc.
  • Gap, concern, and mitigation risk rating
Value creation
  • Operational improvements
  • Digital/IT transformation
  • Virtualization and automation
  • Product development and identification of suitable new sources of revenue generation
  • Big data analytics and AI
Financial modeling and valuation analysis
  • Scenario analysis and forecasted P&L
  • Cash flows and profitability projection
  • Estimation of future profits, cash flows, and profitability projection measures (ROI, ROE, ROCE, IRR, etc.)
  • Estimation of sales and expense projections (CAPEX, OPEX, EBITDA, etc.)
  • Evaluation of past financials including quality of earnings
  • Detailed review of capital structure (WACC, DCF, etc.)
Investor services
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  • Bid book preparation
  • Market consolidation
  • Technology assets restructuring and carving strategies
  • Deal flow ecosystem building
  • Incorporation into post investment strategy implementation task force
Feasibility studies and market assessment
  • Market analysis, competitive analysis and business case building
  • Benchmarking covering current services, pricing, vendors, infrastructure, standards compliance, KPI’s, security, market size/forecast, differentiators, roadmaps, etc.
  • Operating model determination
  • Financial modeling to estimate P&L metrics such as IRR, NPV, Payback Period, etc.
IoT & Smart Cities
IoT Applications
  • Tailoring digital services and IoT applications in smart city environments based on context-specific business cases
  • Smart city OS design and architecture
    Development of low power wide area IoT networks
  • Integration and deployment of IoT backend solutions
  • Smart infrastructure (smart lampposts, smart bus-stops, etc.) and smart homes holistic design and considerations
Smart City Ecosystem Advisory
  • Design, architecture and rollout of IoT, smart cities, and digital services ecosystems
  • Promotion of alliance and collaboration among entrepreneurs, industry, academia, and city governments
  • Business case for digital services and IoT solutions deployment across industry verticals
Quantum Technology
Quantum Resistant Cybersecurity
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  • Quantum Key Distribution to Overcome Quantum Computers Hacking - leveraging quantum centric algorithms and chipsets on both ends of the key exchange process to ensure that any such action is detected, and the key exchange process taking appropriate actions

  • Securing connectivity from the hosted enterprise / hosted DC / Workloads to third-party Data Centers and/or Enterprise premises, by enabling Quantum-Resistant/Quantum-Proof encryption techniques, including new NIST certified algorithms to secure communications

Quantum Compute and Cloud Infra
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  • Offering of Quantum Compute as a service from the Data Center, including putting together the partnership ecosystem, and enabling the optimal connectivity into the Quantum/Public/Private cloud for enterprises

  • Advisory related to specialized Quantum enabled/hybrid High Performance Compute (HPC) applications for targeted industry verticals, including quantum optimized hardware, software and algorithms

Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and ERM
Customized offensive and defensive services with a proactive approach to security
Proactive awareness and continuous assessment of vulnerabilities
Comprehensive review of: 
  • Security architecture and existing protection mechanisms
  • Analysis of evolving security threats and vulnerabilities
  • Network/application/cloud security roadmap
Data Privacy
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  • Policy frameworks for data privacy
  • ​Data privacy laws for data centers and telecom sector
Assist organizations within a vast range of verticals to create innovative resilient solutions to:
  • Cyber-attacks
  • Advanced threats
  • Malware.
Managed services
  • On-demand, proactive reviews of clients’ assets
  • Rapid scale-up of security, compliance operations
  • Minimize risks of digital disruptions caused by cyber threats
  • Comprehensive review of current security architecture 
  • Cyber fraud investigation
  • Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
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  • Information and asset protection, cybersecurity governance
  • Formulation and implementation of IT-centric ERM framework
AI & Digital Services
AI solutions design
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  • Assessment and benchmarking of latest AI ecosystem
  • Devise, design and execution of AI use cases for cost optimization and new revenue generation
  • Development of intelligent data processing models
  • Implementation of Machine Learning solutions
  • AI technology selection and integration
  • Business case for AI project deployment
  • Integration of data analytics models over big data
Digital services design & implementation
  • Implementation and deployment of digital services for public and private sectors
  • Design and specifications on integrated digital cross-media platforms including content strategy
Innovators & VC Tech/Growth Funds
Market assessment
  • Industry positioning and benchmarking
  • Market situation analysis and positioning
  • Competitive landscape analysis
  • Technology readiness assessment
  • Market entry strategy development
  • Initial Market testing and opportunity assessment
  • Market opportunity summary and strategies
  • Partner and ecosystem development plan
  • Market development plan for execution
Alliances strategy development and engagement
  • Determining business objectives and role of partners
  • Alliances strategy assessment and critical success factors
  • Startups ecosystem development
  • Partner program design, development and management
  • Partner recruitment and ecosystem engagement
  • Partner business plan development and execution
Market development
  • Portfolio and roadmap review and validation
  • Marketing plan and pricing models development
  • Engagement modeling
  • Go-to-market strategy definition direct/indirect options
  • Customer opportunity development
  • Partner and ecosystem engagement and deployment
  • Technical expertise to support engagements
  • Support in building local market capabilities
VC tech funds and incubation
  • Review of technology investments and rationalization
  • Specification of the VC/incubator service offering to the ecosystem and startups
    • New venture development and management​
    • Evaluation of strategy, operation model, and execution
    • Concept and design, launch, and evolution
  • Multi-stage incubation​
    • Baseline services offering​
    • Ecosystem - network effect
    • Innovation acceleration - value creation and growth
Fintech & Blockchain
E-Commerce Fintech Solutions
  • Digital payments and e-wallets
  • SoftPOS (Software Point of Sale) and SmartPOS (Smart Point of Sale)
  • Open Banking
  • BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later)
  • CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency)
  • B2B financing and marketplace partnership ecosystem
Blockchain-based Fintech Solutions
  • Trade Finance
  • Derivative and commercial paper settlement
  • Distributed ledger-based commerce marketplaces
  • Dynamically discoverable shared economies model
  • Big data in marketing, RegTech
  • Development and deployment of, bank-in-a-box, and data-lake-in-a-box platforms
Other Blockchain Applications
  • Government – digital identity, secure data sharing, fraud prevention, improvement of transparency on government services
  • Healthcare – immutable, real-time updatable data stores for patients records
  • IoT – tracking of vast number of IoT devices, secure decentralized transactions and communications between devices
  • ​Telecom – enhance BSS/OSS processes such as number portability, billing, and SIM provisioning
Corporates
IT architecture, gap analysis, recommendations, benchmarking, and roadmap evolution
  • Computing and storage architectures evolution
  • IT transformation
  • Network virtualization
  • Application development, Cloud migration, DevOps, CI/CD Security Roadmaps
Compute/storage/network architectures and target deployment environments
Multi-dimensional analysis mapping of design, platforms, software, and security, with:
  • Availability
  • Scalability
  • Management
  • Performance
Virtualization and resource optimization models 
Evaluation of the use of different forms of private/hybrid clouds
  • Methodology for multi-criteria evaluation of alternatives: cost, agility, security, portability, complexity, etc.; and governance, technology, and operational issues
  • Plan an on-demand service model that eliminates unnecessary IT investment
Private Wireless Services Recommendations, with the following considerations:
  • Considerations on categories of enterprise networks (independent/dependent), and types of enterprise wireless networks (stand-alone, RAN sharing, network slicing, etc)
  • Spectrum considerations
  • Device Ecosystem considerations
  • Core network considerations 
  • Radio network considerations 
  • Security Considerations
  • IoT use cases and multi-radio/WIFI considerations
Evolution alignment with design requirement
Architecting alternative application development environments
Cloud related services
  • Virtualization architecture
  • Cloud assessment and strategy
  • Cloud planning, design, and implementation
  • Cloud migration
  • Design of services (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)
  • Integration of applications for cloud solutions
  • Design and development of cloud operation models - commercial and open source
  • Specification of monitoring tools for SLA management
Digital Infrastructure Service Providers
Data Centers strategy, planning, and design
  • End to End Architecture evolution
  • Feasibility studies and project cost budgeting Availability and capacity assessment
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
  • Strategy for carbon transition and sustainability
Virtualization and automation design and deployment
  • SDN/NFV evolution for transport, core, OSS/BSS and LTE networks
  • Benchmarking and go-to-market strategies for NFV vendors
  • Large-scale cloud clusters SDN/NFV networking optimization
  • SDN/NFV-based EPC/IMS and Cloud RAN solutions
  • Virtual Radio Access Networks
Cloud and managed services
  • Advanced data management and disaster recovery
  • Advanced computing and data analysis Inter-cloud services
  • End to end cloud enablement
  • Security managed services
Edge Data Center and Edge Compute 
  • Edge computing/cloud for Telecom operators , Cloud operators  and Enterprises 
  • Advisory on edge software (from OS to application level), hardware (from silicon to systems), and standards evolution and relevant trends
  • ​Assess how DC and telco requirements should be evolved to address changing edge development and edge use cases requirements
Small cells, DAS and neutral host
  • Neutral host enablement for mobile networks through analysis of ownership and business models
  • Technology evaluation - e.g., DAS, VRAN/CRAN, small cells
New market entry strategy
  • Competitive market analysis
  • Benchmarking and gap analysis
  • Feasibility study and business case
  • Disruption play
  • Ecosystem considerations
5G core and new services deployments
  • RAN evolution
  • IP mobile core network evolution
  • Mobile, traffic, video, and impact on network architecture
  • Analytics evolution, M2M, and impact on network architecture
  • IMS, 5G for voice and messaging
  • Offload solutions and impact on network architecture
  • Third party driven new business models
Fiber connectivity
  • Fiber network design and architecture evaluation, Single-Point-of-Failure analysis
  • Market bandwidth demand analysis
  • Partnership strategy development and engagement
  • Construction cost estimation and financial modeling
Subsea cables
  • Assess international bandwidth demand
  • Evaluate capacity of competing subsea cables and forecast price-erosion
  • Perform financial valuation of subsea assets based on market dynamics, cable capacity, technology, and current customer contracts
Satellite connectivity
  • Satellite applications and use cases
  • Satellite strategies and solutions from various sectors' perspectives - e.g., telcos, CSPs, ISPs, SIs
  • Regulatory considerations - international and local
Wi-Fi architecture and offload
  • SDN/NFV implementation
  • Cost optimization through detailed review of technical domains such as vEPC, vIMS, BSS/OSS, NFV
Client
+
300
Repeat Clients Across a
Range of Sectors

Investors, service providers,  corporates and innovators

30
+
Partners & Principals Hailing from Industry

Due diligence, feasibility studies, tech strategy & design

20
+
Years of Global Operation

Delivering disruptive tech innovation and value creation

Consultants

Strategic technology advisory. Technical and commercial Due Diligence for M&A. Feasibility studies. Operating and financial modeling. Market studies. Business plans and technology roadmaps for corporates, telecoms, Data Centers, innovators, and PE/VC backers.

Claude Achcar

Strategic advisory, go-to-market plans for IT corporates, telecoms, data centers, and innovators, cloud and managed services, consulting and advisory for intrapreneurship, JV/multi-vendor projects evaluation.

Maan El-Rayes

IT Infrastructure and Telecom Networks, Data Centers, technology solutions design and implementation; Optical and transport networks, mobile core; Business development, project and program management.

Kokichi Kato

Mobile network architectures, data analytics, optimization, network security, disaster recovery network, technical due diligence, Internet of Things, heat management, data center operation

Dr Stephen Lee

Technology and network evolution strategy, cloud computing, storage, information security management and compliance, network and data center virtualization, SDN and NFV trends, IMS, LTE network and services, M2M

Trinh Ngo

Threat and vulnerability assessments, risk management framework development, design and implementation of technological, physical, and operational asset protection controls, incident management, resilience assessment and training, asset protection

Ilya Umanskiy

Mobile internet architectures, analytics, optimization, cloud networking, strategy advisory, TMT investment and M&A, virtualization, data center and networking architectures and design, information security

Dr Riad Hartani

Technology advisory and due diligence, IT Service Management, telecom networks, BSS/OSS, network management, data center design and assessment, cybersecurity, enterprise security and risk management

Romney Ng

NOC management, project and service management, bid management for nationwide mega projects, technical alliances and technology advisory especially in Packet Optical Networking, Data Center Interconnect, Outside Plant Fiber Optic Network, Mobile Backhaul.

Keith Chan

Fintech, Digital Transformation, Open Banking, Payments, WealthTech, Web 3.0/Crypto. Extensive experience in startup positioning and scaling, corporate innovation in financial services.

Paddy Ramanathan

Mission critical electrical and mechanical systems design, building services management. Data center design, architecture, due diligence, test and commissioning. Power networks design and optimization.

Andrew Shute

Banking & financial services, corporate finance & capital markets, business process mapping & re-engineering, change management, MIS, dashboards & balanced scorecards & compliance, market studies & due-diligence

Raja Abdallah

Data Center design consultancy, M&E consultancy, technical due diligence, SPoF audits, condition surveys, feasibility studies, data center facilities management, project and program management

Malcolm Harris

Cloud-based hosted models, core infrastructure networking, access and mobile applications, networking and security strategy, OTT applications, digital transformation and enterprise architecture

Michael Li

Telecommunication and digital infrastructure. Expert knowledge in ICT regulations and public policies. Competency on the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, big data analytic and blockchain

Heru Sutadi

Strategy & technology marketing in telecom systems, energy management, IT and mobility systems, setting up local operations from green-field, start-ups & negotiating participation of venture capitalists, private equity players.

Dr Dipankar Sengupta

Policy frameworks for data privacy, classification and security for regulatory compliance, IT infrastructure and telecom regulations &policy analysis, trade agreements and policy for digital trade, technical standards (ISO expert)

Michael Mudd

Technology, market and economics of wireless networks, spectrum, and infrastructure solutions, product definition; financial modeling and strategic planning, due diligence, telecom operators and regulators

Frank Rayal

Consultants

Our Partner-level consultants hail from industry and have a deep understanding of the business, market, competitive pressures, regulation, standards, dynamics, and of the guts of the technology and its roadmap.  We excel at execution, the result of decades of tech work, designing, building, marketing, and maintaining tech infra, applications and services globally

Sectors

We provide detailed and pragmatic advisory to a wide range of sectors 
We are often invited by other consultants and partners to contribute specialized tech know-how to client projects

Data Centers
Telecom - Wireless, Fiber and Subsea
Satellite Connectivity
Investment Banks, Funds and Private Equity
Cybersecurity, Data Privacy and ERM
Multi-Access Edge Computing
Cloud and Managed Services
AI and Digital Services
Venture Capital and VC-Backed Innovation
Fintech and Blockchain
Financial Institutions and Exchanges
Public Sector and Regulators
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