Kuehne & Nagel, een wereldwijd transport- en logistiek bedrijf, heeft een nieuw IP VPN contract gesloten met Equant. Equant voorziet het bedrijf sinds 1999 van LAN toegangsdiensten. Het nieuwe contract omvat Equant's IP VPN oplossing die 72 additionele K&N sites in Europa zal verbinden. Voor meer informatie volgt hier het volledige persbericht:
June 12, 2003 – Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU), a recognized industry leader in global IP and data services to multinational businesses, announced that Kuehne & Nagel has joined its growing list of IP VPN customers.
Kuehne & Nagel, a leading global transport and logistics group, will expand its services from Equant with a new IP VPN contract. Equant has been providing the company LAN Access services since 1999 to connect offices and other facilities in more than 35 countries. Equant has also provided Project Management and Network Performance Management services for Kuehne & Nagel. The latest contract builds on this strong relationship with a cost-effective Equant IP VPN solution to connect 72 additional sites throughout Europe.
"Equant has proven itself to be a reliable partner that can deliver service where we need it, reliably and cost effectively," said Michael Dembeck, manager of Corporate Network, Kuehne & Nagel. "Equant IP VPN, using its three classes of service, will help us prevent network bottlenecks by prioritizing business-critical traffic to maintain optimum application response time at peak periods."
Kuehne & Nagel selected Equant IP VPN to deliver the following benefits:
Š Any-to-any connectivity that allows new offices to be added quickly with "plug and play" capabilities.
Š Robust and reliable networking to deliver mission-critical applications.
Š Flexibility to add extranet partners to the network.
Š A solid business platform for future convergence services such as Voice and Video for IP VPN.
Š Dedicated customer service through a designated Customer Service Manager, a local support team, and Global Customer Service Centers in every region of the world.
"We welcome Kuehne & Nagel to our growing IP VPN family," said Michel Picaud, Equant’s senior vice president, Markets and Sales, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. "We are pleased that our former relationship proved so successful and are confident the new IP VPN services will give Kuehne & Nagel additional competitive advantages."
About Equant IP VPN
Launched in August 1999, Equant IP VPN was the industry’s first MPLS-based IP VPN solution and is the most extensively deployed service today, with availability in more than 140 countries. Over the last three years, Equant has steadily expanded the convergence capabilities of its IP VPN platform, first with Equant Voice for IP VPN, which has been adopted by 90 of Equant’s 800 IP VPN customers. In February 2002, Equant launched IP Telephony as the industry’s first desktop-to-desktop, carrier-grade IP telephony solution with global availability in more than 75 countries.
In September 2002, Equant announced Video for IP VPN – the first service with a dedicated IP Class of Service for high-quality videoconferences on the same connection as voice and data traffic. Last December, Equant added the industry’s first Modular VPN feature set, enabling its IP VPN customers to create communities within their solution. In February 2003, Equant announced the availability of DSL Access for VPN. On May 15, 2003, Equant introduced the first IP video conferencing solution with a video-specific class of service on a fully convergent private global network.
About Equant
Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is a recognized industry leader in global data and IP network and integration services for multinational businesses. The Equant network has unmatched seamless reach, connecting key business centers in 220 countries and territories, with local support in more than 165 countries. Building on more than 50 years of experience in data communications, Equant serves thousands of the world’s top companies with the industry’s most extensive portfolio of managed network services, including the market-leading IP VPN used by 800 global businesses as of May 13, 2003. Equant, a member of the France Telecom Group, was named Best Global Carrier 2002 at the World Communication Awards and consistently leads industry surveys in corporate user satisfaction.
About Kuehne & Nagel
With more than 18,000 employees at 600 locations in 96 countries, the Kuehne & Nagel group is one of the leading logistics companies worldwide. Its strong market position lies in the sea-, airfreight and contract logistics businesses, with a clear focus on providing IT-based Supply Chain Management services. The Kuehne & Nagel U.K. organization operates 16 locations with more than 800 employees.
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