Equant LAN VPN Run your business applications on an integrated LAN/WAN for maximum profitability and productivity LAN VPN extends all the way to the desktop the unmatched connectivity and global coverage of Equant’s award winning IP VPN.

Each day forward thinking organizations reinvent how they conduct business by adopting and refining business based, customer focused solutions – the results – competitive advantage, new sources of revenue and optimized business processes. Increasingly, mission critical applications and services are deployed on a network infrastructure that has constantly changing requirements with substantial connections to public and private based IP VPN services. Security and the manageability of this infrastructure can compromize the very gains in productivity that help make today's organizations more profitable enabling them to serve a larger and more diverse customer base.

Key elements
		Fully managed "utility"service with monthly fees including LAN CPE Integrated end-to-end design, QoS, fault and change management and customer care Improved performance for business applications Lower cost of ownership and lower management overheads Easy to use and manage

This is where Equant's new LAN VPN service comes in to a class of its own. It is designed for enterprises that are looking for a world class, fully managed LAN service that is fully integrated with LAN/WAN access requirements, and provides end-to-end design, integrated customer care, ordering, billing solutions and proactive fault management. Equants LAN VPN is a "utility type" service that consists of a set-up cost and then a monthly charge per site or per port, offering significantly reduced cost of ownership and reduced management overheads. So we take away difficult to justify capital expenditure requests and the need for testing, certification, configuration changes and control of software upgrades – leaving our customers to focus on their core capabilities.

Equant LAN VPN is a new and exciting approach to address global end-to-end infrastructure requirements that provides the essential framework for successful migration to converged networks that are able to carry voice, video and data applications such as IP Telephony, IP Video, E-learning and e-commerce applications. Equant is the first service provider to offer an end-to-end Global and integrated LAN/WAN services enabling large multinational enterprises Global SLA's. With an extensive experience with skills based Professional Services consulting, Equant is in a leadership position to offer total cost of ownership studies and application performance analysis that will tailor a solution to specific needs.