{"id":54498,"date":"2023-03-14T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=54498"},"modified":"2023-03-09T07:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T23:29:54","slug":"pldt-smart-resilient-network-facilities-notch-intl-certifications-anew-bolstering-biz-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2023\/03\/14\/pldt-smart-resilient-network-facilities-notch-intl-certifications-anew-bolstering-biz-continuity\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT, Smart resilient network facilities notch int&#8217;l certifications anew, bolstering biz continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) have once again secured international certifications for their resilient network facilities, boosting the Group&#8217;s capability to deliver services amid disruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These certifications reinforce PLDT and Smart&#8217;s Business Continuity (BC) program, which covers disaster preparedness and response, risk and impact mitigation and service recovery and restoration plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLDT and Smart received a total of 22 Certifications for Business Continuity Management System (ISO 22301:2019). The certification focuses on critical network facilities across the country, including cable landing stations and network operations centers, ensuring that the Group&#8217;s facilities that support voice, data, and converged multimedia services connectivity are compliant to international standards for business continuity preparedness. These underscore the Group&#8217;s capability to minimize the impact of crises and disasters, and immediately recover critical business functions within acceptable time frames at a predefined capacity during a disruptive incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) &#8211; based process methodology fosters continuous improvement while ensuring compliance and conformity to internationally accepted standards,&#8221; said Atty Oliver Carlos G. Odulio, Head of PLDT and Smart&#8217;s Enterprise Business Continuity and Resilience Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It likewise establishes organizational resilience that is grounded on the protection of critical business functions which gives equal importance to its people, stakeholder value, corporate competitiveness, and corporate social responsibility,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With internationally certified world-class facilities, PLDT and Smart are also better positioned to serve enterprises and international clients, including hyperscaler companies, boosting the country&#8217;s ambition to become the hyperscaler hub of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PLDT operates the country&#8217;s most extensive fiber infrastructure, which was at 1.09 million kilometers as of end-September 2022, including both domestic and international fiber. This fiber infrastructure also supports Smart&#8217;s mobile network, which covers about 97% of the population with 3G, 4G\/LTE and 5G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is aligned with the PLDT Group\u2019s endeavors to anchor initiatives on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), particularly SDG No. 9 \u2013 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These certifications reinforce PLDT and Smart&#8217;s Business Continuity (BC) program, which covers disaster preparedness and response, risk and impact mitigation and service recovery and restoration plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[379,343,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-54498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}