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Network Boost is a managed service that improves the performance of your applications on your network thanks to giving priority and / or accelerating your application flows. It delivers the best service for your clients and an improvement in end-user productivity.
During the Total Telecom World 2011 in London, Axel Haentjens, VP Marketing of Orange Business Services, explains us how IT and the Internet impact on each other, and how to make the best use of them to offer fully communicating cloud solutions.
In this video, Orange staff and customers, including Siemens and Trustlink, discuss first-hand about Orange operations in South Africa. Between security issues, ground-level challenges, power failures and dated infrastructure, developing countries such as South Africa face different operational obstacles compared to developed countries. However, businesses still require 24x7 uptimes, and the South African team works around the clock to keep our customers' businesses moving.
Jorg Leenaards, CIO for the Belgian Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs, discusses the organization's experience with Orange Business Services as their telecommunications and IT service provider. The agency required a partner that had a truly global presence and able to provide an absolutely secure, highly available and adaptable IP VPN solution to over 100 countries, using satellite and terrestrial connections. The provider also needed to comply with Belgian government, NATO and EU requirements.
Lloyd's Register has signed a five-year contract for Orange Business Services to deliver Business VPN, an award-winning, fully managed IP based VPN service to facilitate secure, efficient connectivity at its 226 sites in 68 countries. This contract covers network based Internet gateways in five global locations - Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. - and fully managed Riverbed-based Enterprise Application Management from Orange Business Services within these locations.
Hear from Tom Nee, Practice Director for Network Management & Optimization in North America, and Christian Hoareau, Global Account Director from Riverbed Technology, as they describe how Orange and Riverbed work together to help provide customers fully managed network optimization services.
Muriel de Beler, program manager within the Common Solutions Team, talks about joint Orange-SITA innovation around Near Field Communicaitons (NFC) for the air transport industry.
Merck, the oldest pharmaceutical and chemical company in the world, discusses its IT partnership with Orange Business Services and the need for application performance in its global business
Our last but one visit in the Silicon Valley on November 18 was with Emulex, and we were greeted by Steve Daheb, CMO & SVP business development and Shaun Walsh, VP Corporate Marketing
We paid another visit to BNT on November 18 at their new premises in Santa Clara, but this time, BNT is no longer a start-up but an IBM company. So what has changed since then and what is in store for the market in that area?
Olivier Vonet, in charge of Business development at Orange Business Services-Trading Solutions explains how Trading community Network can be important within trading institutions.
Orange's Brad Lewis and Cisco's Jim Butz explain the ongoing relationship between the two companies. Not only does Orange use Cisco equipment to build its own network, it also resells Cisco's products and builds services around them for its customers. Orange is a Gold partner in North America meaning that its customers can get the biggest discounts on Cisco equipment. In addition Orange is one of only four companies to hold the Global Gold distinction, which means that it can offer consistent discounts globally. This certification also includes specializations for security, telepresence, wireless and unified communications, demonstrating Orange's expertise in these areas.
Larry Thomas explains SITA's long history and how it was set up to support the technology and communications efforts of the air transport industry (ATI). Jeff Melton adds that SITA actually gave birth Orange Business Services when Equant was spun off out of the organization. In 2001, they formed a strategic alliance, which has recently been renewed, to offer information communications technology (ICT) to the ICT. They also tell us about some of the challenges that the ATI currently face in the Americas, including cost pressures and rapid changing business models, and how Orange and SITA are helping them overcome these.
Jean explains what terms like WAN optimization and application acceleration mean, and how enterprises can use them to improve their application and network performance.
Jean explains what terms like WAN optimization and application acceleration mean, and how enterprises can use them to improve their application and network performance. The key enterprise drivers at the moment in this area center on saving costs by optimizing their existing network and application resources. In brief WAN optimization involves optimizing resources on the wide area network. It comes in many different forms, such as application acceleration, which offers protocol optimization to improve how applications behave over the network.
IP convergence, green IT are hot topics in the Americas Michael Escoe tells us about Orange Business Services' strategy in the Americas where it is targeting mid-market global multinationals with a wide mix of solutions and services.
Paul explains how to deliver the right access network and technology to each site. Central to this is a site profile that covers issues such as the required service levels and type of business undertaken at the site.
Filipe Smolka tells us that in the current economic downturn companies in Latin America are looking to get the cost of their voice communications down, which can represent around 70% of total spending. Orange has been helping companies in Latin America save 20-30% in international traffic with its Business Talk service, which brings voice calls into the cloud.
Arnaud speaks about network trends in the Americas. In addition to managed network services, enterprises in the Americas are still looking to manage part of their infrastructure themselves. They also want easily customized services to match different regional and office requirements. There is an increase in real-time traffic on the network in the Americas and to meet this Orange has invested heavily in infrastructure in the region and developed additional optimization services.
Steve Conway, Director of IT Infrastructure explains to us the complex issues and challenges they were facing with their IT infrastructure and, in particular, provides insight as to why they chose to work with Orange Business Services to bring solutions to all these issues.
Steve Conway, Director of IT Infrastructure describes the complex issues and challenges they were facing with their IT infrastructure and, in particular, provides insight as to why they chose to work with Orange Business Services.
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