This network platform allows multinationals to connect their businesses from Sri Lanka to the rest of world using private IP. P-OTP also allows Dialog Axiata customers to experience resiliency and improve performance.

Verizon's private IP offering includes six class of service, including a feature that prioritises latency-sensitive applications, such as VoIP and video, over office applications, such as e-mail.

Suresh Sidhu, group chief officer-enterprise and global business, Dialog Axiata said: "We are privileged to team up with and provide expertise in Sri Lanka to Verizon, a company with consistent customer-centric focus. Together we will offer great opportunity for global customers to come on board by using reliable, cost-effective solutions that enable them to be competitive in the markets they choose to serve."

Dialog Axiata is a member of the Axiata Group, which is one of the largest telecommunications players in the region. The Axiata Group has presence in Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Singapore, Iran, Pakistan and Thailand.