Secure, fast and reliable telecommunications infrastructures play a very important role in the financial industry, which is quickly getting connected worldwide. With an aim to help the global financial markets keep pace with their rapid growth, telecommunications enterprises have to regularly update and expand their networks and operations.

IPC (News - Alert) Systems, Inc., a provider of high- and low-touch trading communications solutions to the financial trading community worldwide, has announced that it has opened an expanded direct office in Seoul, Korea. Catering to a wide customer base comprising of top investment banks, hedge funds and investment managers in established and emerging markets, the company is totally focused upon the finance sector. It claims an experience of more than 40 years in providing unified solutions that support collaborative voice trading and real-time electronic trading and market data connectivity.

The solutions and services offered by IPC feature a unified communications/application platform, hard and soft turrets and electronic connectivity services such as enhanced voice services, business continuity solutions and support for various global workflows in which tasks are passed around daily between work sites that are many time zones apart. The company has its presence in around 60 nations worldwide through a financial extranet of 4,000 on-net locations in more than 700 cities and global deployment of over 115,000 turrets.

As IPC has been witnessing a constant and strong growth in the Asian markets, it has expanded its office in Korea to accommodate better and more efficient ground support. Through its new office, the company aims at offering sales, implementation, integration and support services for trading floor communications solutions, network and enhanced services. Additionally, the new facility will also be helpful in the development of newer business opportunities in the Asian region.

Peter Noh, an executive with over 14 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, will be serving as the sales director at the new office of IPC in Korea. During the tenure, Noh has worked with various Internet service provider network operations centers and has overseen their enterprise network infrastructure support, design and consulting operations.

“IPC strives to provide its global customer base with support wherever they conduct business,” commented David Dodd, senior vice president and managing director, Asia-Pacific at IPC. “IPC opened its first office in Seoul, Korea in 2010. In this time, we have seen an increased demand for our products and solutions across the local financial services market. We are proud to be able to continue to demonstrate and strengthen our support and commitment to the Korean market.”

In June 2012, IPC Systems (News - Alert), Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Acme Packet (News - Alert), a provider of session delivery network solutions, to extend the value of IPC’s Unigy platform more broadly across the enterprise.

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