| Type | Public BSE: 532691 |
|---|---|
| Founded | July 2, 1992 |
| Founder(s) | Lt. Col. H. S. Bedi |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
This article is about the Telecommunications company called Tulip Telecom Ltd which is building World's Third Largest Data Centre.
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Tulip Telecom Limited (BSE: 532691), formerly Tulip IT Services Ltd., is an Indian telecommunications services provider. The company was started by Lt Col Hardeep Singh Bedi an ex-army man. After serving the Indian army for 22 years, Lt Col HS Bedi took voluntary retirement and founded his company Tulip IT Services, then Tulip Software Pvt Ltd, in 1994 and today it is known as Tulip Telecom Ltd. Today, Lt Col H S Bedi is a well-recognized business leader in the IT and telecom industry and has vast experience in this field.
Tulip Telecom Ltd. (BSE: 532691/NSE: TULIP) is India’s leading Enterprise Communications Service provider. The Company’s data network has the largest reach of over 2,000 locations globally. The Company has a global presence with over 3,250 employees and more than 1,800 customers. Tulip designs, implements and manages communication networks of large enterprises on long term contracts to include enterprise communications connectivity, network integration, managed and value added services.
The Founder of the Company Lt Col H S Bedi started off the company with 4 employees in New Delhi as a software reseller. Later the company explored the field of Network Integration and implemented World’s largest wireless network in Mallapuram, Kerala.[3] This was a key milestone in Tulip’s history. The company also explored the field of wireless and developed India’s largest MPLS VPN network and today it is the India's Leading Enterprise Communication Service Provider.
Today Tulip Telecom Ltd has fiber optic network across all Metros and wide range of wireless presence all across India. Tulip Telecom has established itself as one of the strongest data connectivity players in the industry. Tulip has won the Frost & Sullivan Growth Leadership Award for Enterprise Data Services (MPLS VPN) in 2009 and Market Leadership Award for MPLS VPN in 2007 and 2008.[4] The company has achieved enviable success within a short time span, with revenues of over 1600 crores and employee strength of over 2500.
The company is India’s leading Enterprise Communications Service provider. The Company’s data network has the largest reach of over 2,000 locations in India and partnerships to reach every part of the world. The Company has a global presence with over 3,250 employees and more than 1,800 customers. Tulip designs, implements and manages communication networks of large enterprises on long term contracts to include enterprise communications connectivity, network integration, managed and value added services.
The company has recently acquired a data center facility in Bangaluru by purchasing 100 per cent shares of SADA IT Parks Private Ltd for Rs 230 crore. The company said that the move will further strengthen its end to end data services offering. Tulip Telecom announced that it has chosen IT major IBM and data centre consultant Schnabel to establish a data centre in Bengaluru, which the company said will be India's largest and the world's third largest data centre.
In an recent press release by Tulip Telecom -: The company said that, IBM will provide design consultancy services to Tulip for the overall data centre space along with turnkey execution to build the first phase of the data centre. IBM's consulting and design services will cover a range of data centre technologies, including power, cooling, rack layout, chillers, UPS, DG sets and more.
Tulip, through its wholly owned subsidiary company, Tulip Data Centre Pvt Ltd, spread across 9 lakh square feet, earlier this year for Rs 230 crore. The data centre will be built with an approximate investment of Rs 900 crore, spread over three years.
Schnabel will do peer review consulting with Tulip on the data centre build.
This is Tulip's fifth data centre in the country, which will increases the combined space under its data centres to approximately 10 lakh square feet. Tulip already has one data centre each in Delhi and Bengaluru and two in Mumbai.
It has won a contract from the government of Madhya Pradesh for a state wide area network (SWAN).[3] Tulip Telecom has been successfully winning Market Leadership Award for its MPLS/IP virtual private network for 3 times in a row from Frost & Sullivan since 2009.[4]