 | | | | Landis+Gyr renews its confidence in Equant and migrates its full infrastructure to an Equant Adaptive VPN solution Four-year contract extension includes network design, messaging upgrade and new mobile messaging solution
| Paris and Zug, Switzerland - March 7, 2006 - Landis+Gyr, the Zug, Switzerland-based global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of electricity meter and related equipment, has renewed its contract with Equant for four years and is implementing a new Equant Adaptive VPN solution to include additional sites covering 24 countries. |
| With Landis+Gyr's new ownership by Bayard Group of Austalia, the communications infrastructure of the consolidated new company was more complex. Equant redesigned the company's network, taking into account new business requirements. Landis+Gyr needed to implement a newly designed solution aligning these strategic goals and benefiting from a modern communications solution that would enable it to carry out its business in a more cost effective environment, while at the same time improving bandwidth and reducing complexity. |
| Equant completely redesigned its existing homogenous MPLS solution into an Adaptive network and upgraded the hosted messaging solution supporting mobility. The mobile messaging solution enables management to react quickly and efficiently, independently of location and time, which is an important factor in a dynamic market where new, innovative generations of metering solutions are developed and manufactured. Furthermore, the new communications solution enables Landis+Gyr's network infrastructure to be ready for the company's future strategic plans. |
| Key benefits for Landis+Gyr regarding the new agreement with Equant are: |
- Optimizing the overall communications infrastructure on Equant's converged IP VPN platform.
- Complete redesign of existing MPLS network into an Adaptive VPN solution to benefit more flexibility, cost effectiveness and a technology refresh.
- Messaging upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2003.
- Integration of mobility features with the management of Blackberry servers.
- Significant cost savings.
| The initial contract signed in 2003 covered Landis+Gyr's worldwide communication infrastructure and its messaging platform. The comprehensive combination of network, messaging, Internet access, security and LAN elements with end-user support all from a single source was the winning argument in favor of Equant's services. |
| "In 2003 Landis+Gyr put its confidence in Equant as it was the telecom supplier that best fulfilled the requirements of our needs," said Gavin Dietz, chief information officer, Bayard and Landis+Gyr Group. "With the new redesign of our communications solution, we confirm that Equatn is able to fully adapt its solutions to the more complex environment we face." |
| "This new contract demonstrates the success and development of Equant's services strategy," said Serge Adam, managing director of Equant in Switzerland. "We are extremely pleased to provide the redesign of communication infrastructure for Landis+Gyr, a true industry innovator. Customers like Landis+Gyr are asking Equant to help them meet their most difficult challenge: adapt technology to drive revenue growth and profitability while reducing IT spend and maintaining customer satisfaction." |
| About Landis+Gyr
Landis+Gyr is the worldwide market leader in the measurement of electrical energy and a pioneer in Advanced Metering. in this role as a pioneer and technological leader, the company, founded in 1896, focuses on quality, reliability and cnnovation. Landis+Gyr offers its customers -- the world's leading energy supply companies -- meters, metering systems and Advanced Metering solutions, including automatic meter reading. Heat meters, ripple contract receivers for load management, prepayment solutions for electricity and gas, IT systems for metering data acquisition and processing, together with the associated services, complete the overall product range. Landis+Gyr has its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. The group has 3,700 employees in 35 ccompanies located in 29 countries worldwide, and has an annual turnover of about 495 million euros. |
| About Equant
Equant is a recognized industry leader in global communications services for multinational businesses. Equant combines its network expertise with its expanded services capabilities to provide global, integrated and customized communication services to enable its customers - key business processes. Equant serves thousands of the world's top companies, with the industry's most extensive portfolio of communications services and network solutions, including the market-leading IP VPN used by more than 1,400 global businesses. Equant, a subsidiary of France Telecom, consistently leads industry surveys in corporate user satisfaction.
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