Singtel Digital InfraCo’s Paragon platform recognised for leadership in 5G and AI orchestration
Singtel’s Paragon platform earns global recognition for advancing 5G and AI orchestration across hybrid networks and cloud environments in Asia Pacific.
Singtel Digital InfraCo’s orchestration platform, Paragon, has received industry recognition for its role in advancing multi-network and multi-cloud orchestration across edge, public and AI cloud environments in Asia Pacific. The awards highlight Paragon’s growing importance as enterprises and telecommunications operators scale AI and mission-critical applications that require assured network performance and real-time control.
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Developed in-house by Singtel and patented across eight countries, Paragon is positioned as an all-in-one orchestration platform that unifies 5G networks, edge compute infrastructure and cloud services. Its design addresses increasing operational complexity as organisations adopt hybrid AI infrastructure and deploy applications across multiple networks and environments.
Industry awards highlight regional impact
Paragon was named winner of the Platform Award at the World Communication Awards 2025, which recognises technologies that deliver tangible impact across the global telecommunications industry. The platform also received Frost & Sullivan’s 2025 Asia Pacific 5G and Multi-Infrastructure AI Orchestration Enabling Technology Leadership Award.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the award reflects Paragon’s ability to support intelligent automation and digital innovation through features such as real-time network slicing, autonomous resource optimisation, seamless multi-cloud application management and curated marketplace access to third-party applications. These capabilities allow enterprises and telcos to deploy and manage complex digital services with greater speed and reliability.
Bill Chang, Chief Executive Officer of Singtel Digital InfraCo, said the recognition reflects the platform’s ability to adapt alongside rapid technological change. “As new technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, telcos and enterprises need platforms that can adapt just as quickly. We designed and built Paragon for versatility, enabling diverse sectors to significantly reduce complexity and time to deploy AI, hybrid compute and multinetwork technologies. We are honoured by the industry recognition Paragon has received as we continue to enhance its capabilities to help businesses evolve and drive value in a dynamic technology landscape,” he said.
Enabling hybrid AI and mission-critical applications
As AI adoption accelerates across Singapore and the wider region, orchestration platforms capable of managing hybrid AI infrastructure and multiple networks are becoming increasingly essential. Industry projections indicate that three quarters of enterprise AI workloads in Asia Pacific are expected to run on hybrid, fit-for-purpose infrastructure by 2027. In addition, four in five chief information officers plan to rely on edge services to meet AI inferencing performance and regulatory compliance requirements.
Paragon is designed to support these demands by reducing execution times from weeks or days to minutes or seconds. This enables faster development and deployment of mission-critical applications, including drones, autonomous vehicles and augmented reality use cases, where network quality of service must be managed dynamically and on demand.
The platform’s impact has been demonstrated through collaborations with enterprise partners such as Hitachi Digital. Through this partnership, Paragon is being used to accelerate the deployment of enterprise-grade AI within Hitachi’s NVIDIA AI Factory.
Frank Antonysamy, Chief Growth Officer at Hitachi Digital, said the collaboration has strengthened the company’s ability to scale AI innovation across its global operations. “Our collaboration with Singtel to bring AI services to both Hitachi’s internal teams and our customers has strengthened our ability to scale AI innovation and deliver meaningful outcomes to our customers and our businesses, worldwide. By leveraging Singtel’s Paragon platform, we are accelerating the deployment of enterprise-grade AI, in Hitachi’s NVIDIA AI Factory across our business. The use cases deployed are in physical AI across manufacturing and operations and maintenance of assets, to the use of large language models for intelligent equipment troubleshooting, and the optimisation of performance across our operations,” he said.
Expanding the ecosystem and sovereign AI capabilities
Singtel continues to expand Paragon’s ecosystem through partnerships with hyperscalers and technology providers, while deepening its integration with Singtel’s sovereign AI cloud service, RE:AI. These efforts are aimed at delivering consistent orchestration across connectivity, compute and graphics processing units, allowing enterprises to deploy large-scale, regulated and data-sensitive AI workloads with greater confidence.
Beyond enterprise use cases, Paragon is also enabling telecommunications operators to unlock new revenue opportunities. By supporting the monetisation of network application programming interfaces and the establishment of sovereign AI factories within local markets, the platform allows telcos to participate more directly in the growing AI economy while maintaining control over network and data sovereignty.
