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Prem Rodrigues , Director for India , SAARC , Middle East , Africa at Siemon
Describe your current job role and a summary of the business model of your organisation ?
Prem Rodrigues is the Director for the India , SAARC , Middle East , Africa region at Siemon , which is a global network infrastructure specialist . Prem ’ s role involves a close focus on profitability across the region and he is instrumental in spawning new strategic business and innovations launched by Siemon .
Siemon builds its business by providing innovative and high-quality IT infrastructure solutions to the datacentre and intelligent building markets , thereby following a consultative approach to add value to customers across different vertical markets . Once end users have been consulted on the right infrastructure design approach , Siemon trains system integrators and channel partners , distributors , and installers on how to effectively implement the right design .
What are your strengths and abilities that you bring to the above role ?
With 20 + years of experience in the industry and as a certified Registered Communications Distribution Designer , Prem brings a large amount of knowledge to the table . He has a wealth of technical and commercial expertise in enterprise-scale technology
development , incubation , and commercialisation in areas including smart buildings and data centres that he utilises to further develop three vast regions . He is described by his team as a strategic thinker , passionate leader and hands-on manager who has a great interest in expanding his knowledge about the latest technologies .
Please describe the expectations of the end customers that you address . What are their pain points today ?
Two requirements that prevail in datacentres today are the need for increased bandwidth and the need for low latency data transmission to support emerging applications such as artificial intelligence or machine learning . Here , data centre managers require solutions that allow them to easily migrate from 10 Gigabit Ethernet to 100,200 or even 400 Gigabit Ethernet soon .
In intelligent buildings , building operators and owners are focussed on the economic benefits of network convergence . With this approach , a single IP-based network supports multiple systems including data , voice , video , and low-voltage building systems which has a distinct impact on a building ’ s CapEx and OpEX .
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