Equant Partners with Network Appliance to Improve Enterprise Customers' Access to the Internet and their Intranet Business Applications
Announcement posted by Equant 02 Aug 2003
Worldwide agreement for Equant Cache Management service and NetApp(r) NetCache(r) offers significant cost and performance benefits
Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), a leading provider of enterprise network storage solutions, has announced that Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU), an industry leader in global data and IP network, and integration services for multinational businesses, has selected the NetApp NetCache hardware product family as the infrastructure backbone for Equant's Cache Management service.
NetApp NetCache systems enable Equant to offer Cache Management to enterprise customers in over 140 countries, providing secure, high-performance, cost-effective access to internet and business-critical intranet information. Equant already has over 300 NetCache systems in more than 50 countries under its management.
With Equant Cache Management, customers can effectively eliminate network and server bottlenecks to dramatically improve the use of web-accessible business applications, streaming media, content distribution, traffic monitoring, filtering and virus scanning. Customers can use Equant's service to improve basic internet access and can also leverage this service to accelerate intranet access. Intranet content is replicated at critical locations within the customer's IP VPN or WAN, resulting in up to 40 per cent savings in bandwidth and up to a 95 per cent improvement in response time over legacy systems. In addition, Equant Cache Management reduces the number of servers a company must buy and manage; increases employee productivity and satisfaction with faster information access; and reduces exposure to viruses and other security threats.
"Our new Cache Management service is part of our effort to help our customers maximise their IT resources," said Gilles Pradere, Head of
Managed Services at Equant. "With the support of NetApp NetCache, Equant Cache Management offers customers the potential to decrease operational expenses; increase employee productivity and satisfaction; and improve network and data security."
"As the leader in the content delivery market, Network Appliance has always set the bar for performance and total cost of ownership, and our work with Equant provides yet another opportunity for Enterprises to benefit from our solutions," said Amit Pandey, Vice President and General Manager, Content Delivery Business Unit at Network Appliance. "Enterprises continue to leverage caching technologies to access new types of business information.
Equant's innovative Cache Management service demonstrates that caching and content delivery have become mainstream in the Enterprise."
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About Equant
Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is a recognised 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 world's top companies with the industry's most extensive portfolio of managed network services, including the market-leading IP VPN used by 800 global businesses as of May 13, 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.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and partner firsts that continue to drive "The evolution of storage."(tm) Information about Network Appliance(tm) solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.
NetApp and NetCache are registered trademarks and Network Appliance and The evolution of storage are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.
NetApp NetCache systems enable Equant to offer Cache Management to enterprise customers in over 140 countries, providing secure, high-performance, cost-effective access to internet and business-critical intranet information. Equant already has over 300 NetCache systems in more than 50 countries under its management.
With Equant Cache Management, customers can effectively eliminate network and server bottlenecks to dramatically improve the use of web-accessible business applications, streaming media, content distribution, traffic monitoring, filtering and virus scanning. Customers can use Equant's service to improve basic internet access and can also leverage this service to accelerate intranet access. Intranet content is replicated at critical locations within the customer's IP VPN or WAN, resulting in up to 40 per cent savings in bandwidth and up to a 95 per cent improvement in response time over legacy systems. In addition, Equant Cache Management reduces the number of servers a company must buy and manage; increases employee productivity and satisfaction with faster information access; and reduces exposure to viruses and other security threats.
"Our new Cache Management service is part of our effort to help our customers maximise their IT resources," said Gilles Pradere, Head of
Managed Services at Equant. "With the support of NetApp NetCache, Equant Cache Management offers customers the potential to decrease operational expenses; increase employee productivity and satisfaction; and improve network and data security."
"As the leader in the content delivery market, Network Appliance has always set the bar for performance and total cost of ownership, and our work with Equant provides yet another opportunity for Enterprises to benefit from our solutions," said Amit Pandey, Vice President and General Manager, Content Delivery Business Unit at Network Appliance. "Enterprises continue to leverage caching technologies to access new types of business information.
Equant's innovative Cache Management service demonstrates that caching and content delivery have become mainstream in the Enterprise."
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Notes for Editors:
About Equant
Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU) is a recognised 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 world's top companies with the industry's most extensive portfolio of managed network services, including the market-leading IP VPN used by 800 global businesses as of May 13, 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.
About Network Appliance
Network Appliance is a world leader in unified storage solutions for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992, Network Appliance has delivered technology, product and partner firsts that continue to drive "The evolution of storage."(tm) Information about Network Appliance(tm) solutions and services is available at www.netapp.com.
NetApp and NetCache are registered trademarks and Network Appliance and The evolution of storage are trademarks of Network Appliance, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.