Equant Strengthens Managed Messaging Portfolio With Remote On-Site Option And Messaging Consulting
Announcement posted by Equant 18 Mar 2003
New remote option and consulting service can help companies significantly reduce messaging costs
Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU), an industry leader in global data and IP services for multinational businesses, has strengthened its Managed Messaging services by introducing a Remote On-site option and Equant Messaging Consulting.
With the new Remote On-site option, customer servers may be hosted off the Equant network in locations where they optimally balance performance with bandwidth requirements. This capability enables Equant to offer more flexible messaging solutions that can reduce the total cost of ownership by more than 40 percent per user over the typical in-house implementation.
Customers benefit because:
Remote On-site can be deployed in any suitable customer premise equipment (CPE) or Equant point of presence (PoP).
The solution is fully managed by Equants global Messaging Control Centers, ensuring the highest levels of availability for the most widely used business applications.
Remote On-site is a turnkey solution that is fully configured and tested to match the performance requirements of the customer.
Similarly, Equant Messaging Consulting services are designed to meet customers messaging requirements from beginning to end, including assessment, design, deployment and management. By matching business needs and analyzing the overall cost of messaging, including network bandwidth costs, Equant helps customers keep their messaging costs down. For example, Equant has already identified the potential for one Messaging Consulting customer to reduce its monthly cost per user from $70 to $38.
Consulting customer benefits include:
Equant Network and Messaging experts work with customers to review and analyze their current messaging strategy and infrastructure.
Equant then provides a detailed, written recommendation for a new messaging architecture, including the exact number and location of servers, and a budgetary Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
The process normally takes only 20 days to complete.
Arjen Maarleveld, Equants head of Products, said announced the new Managed Messaging services during a briefing today at the CeBIT 2003 conference in Hanover, Germany. We have combined our global experience and expertise in hosting, network and integration services to deliver agile and flexible messaging solutions to multinational corporations, said Maarleveld. added The new Remote On-site option and Messaging Consulting service enhance our professional services teams ability to design cost-effective, high-performance Managed Messaging services that offer our customers the lowest possible cost of ownership.
In addition to Remote On-site and Messaging Consulting, Equants Managed Messaging portfolio includes Managed Microsoft Exchange, Managed Lotus Notes and Managed SMTP Messaging. Equant is uniquely positioned to offer these services to multinational companies because of its global experience in both networking and messaging.
About Equant
Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is a recognized industry leader in global data and IP network and integration services for multinational businesses. The Equant network has unmatched seamless reach, connecting key business centers in 220 countries and territories, with local support in 191 countries. Building on more than 50 years of experience in data communications, Equant serves thousands of the worlds top companies with the industrys most extensive portfolio of managed network services, including the market-leading IP VPN used by 750 global businesses as of March 10, 2003. Equant, a member of the France Telecom Group, was named Best Global Carrier 2002 at the World Communication Awards and consistently leads industry surveys in corporate user satisfaction.
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This release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements related to Equant that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future results or events. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Equant with the SEC, specifically the most recent filing on Form 20-F, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including, among other things, risks relating to Equants history of operating losses, the unpredictability of growth in Equants markets, Equant s rapid growth, changing technology, uncertain and changing regulatory restrictions, Equants international operations, dependence on suppliers, network security issues, competition, and volatility of Equants stock price and risks relating to the combination with Global One. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Equant on the date hereof, and Equant assumes no obligation to update such statements.
With the new Remote On-site option, customer servers may be hosted off the Equant network in locations where they optimally balance performance with bandwidth requirements. This capability enables Equant to offer more flexible messaging solutions that can reduce the total cost of ownership by more than 40 percent per user over the typical in-house implementation.
Customers benefit because:
Remote On-site can be deployed in any suitable customer premise equipment (CPE) or Equant point of presence (PoP).
The solution is fully managed by Equants global Messaging Control Centers, ensuring the highest levels of availability for the most widely used business applications.
Remote On-site is a turnkey solution that is fully configured and tested to match the performance requirements of the customer.
Similarly, Equant Messaging Consulting services are designed to meet customers messaging requirements from beginning to end, including assessment, design, deployment and management. By matching business needs and analyzing the overall cost of messaging, including network bandwidth costs, Equant helps customers keep their messaging costs down. For example, Equant has already identified the potential for one Messaging Consulting customer to reduce its monthly cost per user from $70 to $38.
Consulting customer benefits include:
Equant Network and Messaging experts work with customers to review and analyze their current messaging strategy and infrastructure.
Equant then provides a detailed, written recommendation for a new messaging architecture, including the exact number and location of servers, and a budgetary Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
The process normally takes only 20 days to complete.
Arjen Maarleveld, Equants head of Products, said announced the new Managed Messaging services during a briefing today at the CeBIT 2003 conference in Hanover, Germany. We have combined our global experience and expertise in hosting, network and integration services to deliver agile and flexible messaging solutions to multinational corporations, said Maarleveld. added The new Remote On-site option and Messaging Consulting service enhance our professional services teams ability to design cost-effective, high-performance Managed Messaging services that offer our customers the lowest possible cost of ownership.
In addition to Remote On-site and Messaging Consulting, Equants Managed Messaging portfolio includes Managed Microsoft Exchange, Managed Lotus Notes and Managed SMTP Messaging. Equant is uniquely positioned to offer these services to multinational companies because of its global experience in both networking and messaging.
About Equant
Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is a recognized industry leader in global data and IP network and integration services for multinational businesses. The Equant network has unmatched seamless reach, connecting key business centers in 220 countries and territories, with local support in 191 countries. Building on more than 50 years of experience in data communications, Equant serves thousands of the worlds top companies with the industrys most extensive portfolio of managed network services, including the market-leading IP VPN used by 750 global businesses as of March 10, 2003. Equant, a member of the France Telecom Group, was named Best Global Carrier 2002 at the World Communication Awards and consistently leads industry surveys in corporate user satisfaction.
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This release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements related to Equant that involve risks and uncertainties. Readers are cautioned that these statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future results or events. Readers are referred to the documents filed by Equant with the SEC, specifically the most recent filing on Form 20-F, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including, among other things, risks relating to Equants history of operating losses, the unpredictability of growth in Equants markets, Equant s rapid growth, changing technology, uncertain and changing regulatory restrictions, Equants international operations, dependence on suppliers, network security issues, competition, and volatility of Equants stock price and risks relating to the combination with Global One. All forward-looking statements are based on information available to Equant on the date hereof, and Equant assumes no obligation to update such statements.