Orange Business Services Upgrades IP Network In Asia Pacific

Orange Business Services, France Telecom Group’s division for worldwide enterprise services and an information and communications technology provider, has enhanced its next-generation converged IP network in Asia Pacific to deliver greater coverage, capacity, performance and resilience to its multi-national enterprise customers.

Designed to handle data, voice, video, mobility and versatile access methods, Orange Business Services’ next-generation network integrates innovations like Multicast, IPv6 and Telepresence support. In particular, the Orange network is capable of handling in-the-cloud application acceleration and security as well as converged voice, video and telepresence services.

“Enterprises operating in Asia Pacific need networks that will help them adapt to the new economic realities and the need for greater cost control, while responding in tandem to the demand for rapid presence anywhere, anytime as the business requires,” said Yee-May Leong, SVP-Asia Pacific, Orange Business Services.

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Orange Business Services’ APAC network includes 60 next-generation routers to support the company’s new service enhancements, such as:

• high bandwidth International Ethernet Link available in seven countries, including: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea;
• Network Boost for application prioritisation, management and SLA to ensure required quality for critical applications;
• IP VPN for Telepresence to meet enterprise needs to reduce travel costs and enable remote meetings; and
• Network Protect, which provides embedded security needed by branch offices, to deal with new threats and provide 24/7 managed security.

Orange Business Services is present in 40 countries in Asia Pacific. Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan, key APAC backbone countries, are being transformed to a 2.5G bandwidth “ring” while India and Australia are connected by multiple 622M links. Trans-Pacific and Asia-Europe links have also been upgraded to Gbit/s levels. Domestic networks in key countries, including India, will reach Gbit/s level in 2009. All these capacities are dedicated to multinational customers’ intranet traffic and decoupled from the public Internet.