 | | | | Equant in the news January 2006 - Growth Opportunities in the Information Technology Sector | Source: Frost & Sullivan Information & Communication Technology Practice Newsletter - Equant: Recipient of the 2005 Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award. For achieving extraordinary and diversified vertical market penetration as a result of its rare insight into the global manufacturing industry, Frost & Sullivan is proud to present Equant with the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Vertical Market Penetration Leadership.
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October 2005 - Equant Pushes to Win More Network Deals in U.S. | Source: ComputerWorld - In August, Barbara Dalibard was named president and CEO of Amsterdam-based network operator Equant BV. Dalibard is also an executive vice president at Paris-based France Telecom SA, which bought full ownership of Equant in May. After a recent technology demonstration at a facility owned by France Telecom here, Dalibard spoke with ComputerWorld about the company's efforts to use Equant to become a bigger factor in the U.S. telecommunications market. Click on the PDF link below to view excerpts of that interview.
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September 2005 - Equant Again Achieves "Best in Class" Award for Overal Customer Satisfaction (combined and derived) | Source: Telemark Technology Marketing - The "Best in Class" award solidifies Equant's global leadership position in the 13th worldwide issue of Telemark's Voice of the Customer: Benchmarking Customer Satisfaction, IP Services for the Business User report. Equant also exceeded the competition with excellent performance in four attributes: 24-hour Transparent Network Maintenance, Geographical Reach End-to-End, General Helpdesk Provision, and End-to-End Network Management achieving Telemark's only Gold Award for the attribute. Telemark Gold Awards are presented only for outstanding results based on user input.
Equant's well rounded, customer- and technology-focused service exceeded the benchmark standard in each and every one of the 32 attributes and received "Best in Class" awards for eleven of the 32 attributes - the most of any operator. These "Best in Class" awards include International Performance, Prior Pilot Installation, Third Party Equipment Integration, Installation on Schedule, Technical Support, Single Point of Contact, Understandable Tariffs, and Geographic Reach.
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August 2005 - Persistent Connectivity : Communications Control
| Source: Chain Store Age - Prior to selecting Equant, which has its global headquarters in Paris, Stride Rite utilized four different telecommunications providers. "There were a variety of problems and outages when communications would break and we were not able to send e-mails or share product information between offices. In some instances, we'd have communications failures that would last two to 10 days," stated Yusef Akyuz, Stride Rite CIO. "Identifying the root cause and resolving problems was difficult, because each vendor would say it was another vendor's problem."
Stride Rite created a private network by installing communications lines for data, voice and video between each of its offices and Equant's. Monitoring devices in each of the locations allow Stride Rite to view communications as they take place, confirm that e-mails are moving consistently and that video images are transmitting at acceptable speeds.
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July 2005 - Consulting-Over-IP | Source: VON Magazine - After going public in 2002 and simultaneously deciding on the "greenfield" approach, BearingPoint and White spent much of the next year identifying the criteria that such a system would need to satisfy. White decided that, at minimum, BearingPoint needed to acquire a MPLS (MultiProtocol Label Switching) network especially well-suited to handle the growing call volume informed by BearingPoint's growth and fields of expertise. It also became obvious to White that the type of communications infrastructure needed to make all this work would include VoIP capability.
The decision to implement the Equant solution was driven in large part by Equant's compatibility with remote worker software developed by AgilQuest, in Richmond, Virginia. AgilQuest's servers are co-located with Cisco CallManagers. A system was envisioned in which Equant would supply the requisite interof- fice connectivity via an MPLS VPN (Virtual Private Network), and would monitor the BearingPoint infrastructure including gateways and servers. Equant's VoIP monitoring capability - which can also check on ISDN Primary Rate Interface channel availability as well as Quality of Service (QoS) metrics' was also seen as a big plus.
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July 2005 - Dispelling IP VPN Myths | Source: Converge! Network Digest - Multinational businesses are experiencing relentless pressures from inside and outside their organizations, in the form of globalization, mergers, outsourcing, offshoring, and new application deployment.
Consequently, expectations that CIOs perform effectively and successfully never wane, while the need to achieve ROI is more urgent than ever. Because of their flexibility and cost performance, IP VPNs have been an instrumental tool in achieving these goals. There has been much talk about the high adoption rates and valuable benefits of IP VPNs, however, there are some common myths, which unless challenged, will prevent IP VPNs from truly empowering CIOs and impacting businesses.
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March 2005 - Get Connected | Source: CXO Report - In its inaugural issue, CXO interviews Mack Treece, president of the Americas at Equant, on outsourcing trends in the communications market.
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February 2005 - Cigarette Manufacturer Rolls Out VoIP: New Technologies Are Reinvigorating IT Outsourcing
| Source: Outsourcing Journal - There's a motto in the IT department of JT International (JTI): "Source the service, not the technology." Gunter Hagendorf, Director of Vendor Management and Service Delivery for JTI, says that his company--which is part of Japan Tobacco Inc., the world's third largest tobacco manufacturer--decided it must focus on strategic decisions and not technology and operations. This decision is a key feature of its mandated corporate transformation from a multinational corporation to a global company.
For the last 10 years, JTI, which produces brands like Camel, Salem, Winston, and Mild Seven--(In Japan, JTI enjoys a smokin' 72.9 percent market share)--has outsourced its global communications to Equant.
In 2003 JTI looked "to put more in Equant's basket" as part of its business transformation. The services now include: local and wide area networks; fixed and mobile voice; PBX, maintenance, and video and audio conferencing. But to make sure it was getting the best deal available, Hagendorf says JTI put out a Request for Proposal (RFP) for wide area networks before the final decision. As it turned out, Equant was the only provider that had the global reach JTI needed. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, this manufacturer employs more than 11,000 people in 48 countries.
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January 2005 - Networking and Partnering | Source: FSOutsourcing - The collaborative partnership between AXA and Equant helped the global financial giant save millions in network infrastructure costs by consolidating a variety of contracts with their vendor-partner, France Telecom and Equant.
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October 2004 - Network Protection: The First Step Toward Compliance | Source: WTSA Publications - While Internet security solutions have become much smarter, threats continue to evolve and become much more sophisticated. In the past, viruses were predominantly transmitted when employees received a corrupt file attachment, opened it, and it infected their machine, as well as their company network.
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September 2004 - Achieving Payback on your VoIP Investment | Source: Internet Telephony - The economic case for VoIP has become so strong that most large companies cannot afford the luxury of postponing the decision whether to migrate to this technology. In fact, many are already well on their way with tactical implementations. According to In-Stat/MDR, the percentage of U.S. companies using VoIP will rise from two percent in 2003, to 19 percent in 2007. Meanwhile, Yankee Group reports that sales of IP-based telephony systems are currently running level with those of traditional systems, and will overtake them by 2006. Some analysts are also pointing to 2006 as the year when IP phones take over original digital phones.
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April 30, 2004 - Equant hopes to outrun market in race toward value-added services | Source: Latin.com - When France Telecom sold off its stakes in telco incumbents in El Salvador and Argentina last year, rumors immediately sprung up that the company might be trying to pull out of Latin America completely. These were two very significant pieces of France Telecom's Latin America portfolio, after all, and it was no secret the company was already trying to sell its other telco stake, a 25% share in Brazilian long-distance provider Intelig. France Telecom's mobile operator Orange has only dabbled in the region and it would be relatively easy to exit; Internet services provider Wanadoo eyed Latin America but ended up not going there at all.
However, another France Telecom business, corporate data and voice services provider Equant, does have a significant presence in Latin America and company execs say they have no intention of pulling out of the region. While numerous multinational telecoms players allowed themselves or their Latin operations to slide into bankruptcy when capital for telcos got scarce, Equant points out that it, and its Latin business, weathered the storm. > More |
April 20, 2004 - Steps to Convergence - From Thought to Acceptance | Source: Converge! Network Digest - Equant has been featured in a special series on Circuit-to-Packet technologies and issues. The following article outlines part of the company's vision for the future of networks and services. The article was published by Converge! Network Digest in its Blueprint: Circuit-to-Packet series. > More |
April 20, 2004 - Equant lights up at $144m Japan Tobacco deal
| Source: Silicon.com - Japan Tobacco Inc (JTI), seller of the Camel, Winston and Mild 7 brands of cigarettes, is outsourcing its telecoms operations to Equant in a six-year deal worth $144m.
The agreement spans 47 countries and will see numerous contracts with local service providers move to Equant, which is a division of France Telecom, during coming months and years. > More |
March 11, 2004 - Global Talk Gets Cheaper | Source: Wall Street Journal Online - The capacity of fiber-optic lines connecting telephone systems into India, for example, increased almost sevenfold from 2001 to 2002, according to TeleGeography, a research division of PriMetrica Inc.; this has brought lower prices and more room to transmit everything from free calls into customer-care centers to e-mails and Internet traffic. As a result, a telephone and data line under the Pacific Ocean capable of handling up to 128 voice calls at a time can cost just $11,000 a month - one-fourth its cost just two years ago, according to J.P. Crametz, a director at Oncept Inc., a telecom procurement consulting business based in Palo Alto, Calif.
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March 8, 2004 - Convergence is Driving MPLS IP VPNs | Source: Converge! Network Digest - Convergence is clearly one of the major reasons MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) IP VPNs are revolutionizing the telecommunications landscape. During 2003, Equant witnessed a shift from an "early adopter" to a "mainstream" attitude by major multinational corporations (MNCs). No longer are Fortune 2,000 global firms opting for converged voice and data networks simply to future-proof themselves for the technologies and applications on the horizon. Rather, they are seeing the move as crucial for their ability to compete and meet their bottom line numbers today. > More |
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