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January 25, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — KPNQwest (kpnqwest.com), a pan-European data communications
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and hosting company, announced today that it has signed a deal with the Austrian technology group Andritz (andritz.com), a provider of production systems for pulp, paper, steel and other industries, to provide a 20-site, 8-country IP-VPN service.
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Under the terms of the deal, KPNQwest will provide Andritz with a scalable
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IP-VPN service to interconnect sites in Austria, Germany, Netherlands,
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Ireland, UK, France, Canada and the United States. The solution will provide
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an all- IP platform to support Andritz’s business-critical applications and
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e-mail systems, enabling employees to access and share information across
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one centralized corporate network. It will also support ERP (Enterprise
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Resource Planning) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) applications
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across its global network.
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The solution is deployed across one of the largest fibre-optic backbones in
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Europe with full interoperability to a 160,000km global network with
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virtually unlimited bandwidth. This can be used to support the delivery of
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bandwidth-rich data files or business-critical applications minimal latency
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for ensuring fast round trip times.
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“While the migration to the IP-VPN service will help reduce our networking
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costs and add new efficiencies, we selected KPNQwest because its
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wholly-owned network provided the quality of service and service level
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agreement we required,” said Heiner Fellner-Feldegg, head of IT
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communications of Andritz.
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“2001 has seen IP-VPNs finally establish themselves as a serious platform
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for corporate communications providing a 15-20% saving over traditional
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corporate networking solutions,” said Chris Lewis, vice president EMEA,
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Yankee Group. “KPNQwest, with its transport, Internet and hosting background
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is amongst a leading lights in supporting European corporates in the IP-VPN
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market.”
