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Aviva signs £300m comms deal

News The insurance company, which was formed from Norwich Union and GNU (itself the union of Commercial Union and General Accident) in 2002, will be using C&W for 72 separate services including telephony, data and IPVPN and MPLS wide area networking to...

Tags: voip, c&w, aviva

[13 May 2008]

Yo!Sushi cuts copper in favour of MPLS

News Sushi is forecasting a two-year return on investment on an MPLS (multi protocol label switching) network installed to support its plans to grow from around 40 restaurants to 100 by 2010.silicon.com Retail & Leisure

Tags: bt, mpls, yo!sushi

[07 Apr 2008]

Is your network performance getting you down?

News Globally, migration to multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) data networks appears to be steady, the survey found, with most organisations still in the early stages of adoption. More than a third of respondents said they will have migrated to MPLS...

Tags: voip, security, network

[01 Apr 2008]

AA slashes £2m a year off voice and data costs

News The whole project cost £2m and took nearly a year, though the actual technical implementation and migration onto MPLS only took about five months. Motoring and breakdown organisation the AA has cut its network costs by almost £2m a year by...

Tags: trevor didcock, cable & wireless, the aa

[17 Jul 2007]

AT&T is Swede on $3m deal

News Based in Sweden, Cardo has subsidiaries worldwide and AT&T has won a contract to implement and manage an MPLS-based wide area network covering 188 sites in 29 countries. AT&T has announced a $3m, three-year deal with international industrial and...

Tags: networking, at&t

[22 May 2007]

PepsiCo signs IT deal with BT and HP

News BT will manage data, LAN, security, conferencing, remote access and internet services across more than 900 locations for PepsiCo's international division and migrate the networks to an IP-based multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) infrastructure.

Tags: pepsico, hp, bt

[05 Oct 2006]

Tourist chiefs boost videoconferencing network

News The agency is also putting in place a communications convergence strategy, beefing up the organisation's MPLS data network and moving the videoconferencing traffic onto this and off ISDN lines. The UK's national tourism agency VisitBritain is...

Tags: video-conferencing

[23 Aug 2006]

Building society begins million pound IT overhaul

News A new Cisco-based multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network at the heart of the IT refresh will enable all the KRBS' core business applications and processes to be operated and managed from a single data centre at the building society's...

Tags: s2s, kent reliance building society

[18 Aug 2006]

Childminders save money and space with VoIP

News In the future, the NCMA is considering adding an MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) system, which makes traffic faster and easier to manage. The National Childminding Association (NCMA) has switched to Mitel for its VoIP.

Tags: national childminders association, ncma, mitel

[07 Aug 2006]

Cirque du Soleil in $4m Orange tie up

News The $4m, four-year deal will cover IP virtual private network (VPN) services that use MPLS, which allows for more flexible and often faster networking, as well as professional services. Cirque du Soleil has signed a global networking and services...

Tags: ip vpn, equant, vpn, orange

[21 Jul 2006]

AA in £10m network outsourcing deal with C&W

News Didcock said work has already started on migrating to an MPLS-based network that will be used to trial voice over IP later this year. Motoring organisation the AA has outsourced management of its voice and data networks to Cable & Wireless (C&W) in...

Tags: the aa, cable & wireless

[28 Jun 2006]

BT wins £25m Balfour Beatty contract

News The deal will see BT consolidate Balfour Beatty's various distributed networks into one multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) data network which will serve 500 UK offices and project locations - including short term building sites.

Tags: balfour beatty, bt

[28 Mar 2006]

Easynet flush with Kohler contract win

News Kohler's entire European network, based on MPLS, is being outsourced to Easynet. Luxury bathroom fittings maker Kohler has selected Easynet to manage its wide area network in a deal worth €1.2m over three years.

Tags: mpls

[02 Feb 2006]

Broadband, mobile, VoIP: The next-gen of telecom

News The study, Service Provider Plans for IP, MPLS and ATM: North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, interviewed 29 carriers from across the world. The next generation of telecoms services will be led by broadband and mobile.

Tags: mobile, broadband, voip

[11 Jan 2006]

Tech winners and losers as broadband spend jumps

News Hopkins added: "Point-to-point Ethernet is growing very strongly, replacing synchronous digital hierarchy leased lines and in many cases providing access to MPLS VPNs. Companies will continue to spend more on business data services, with revenues...

Tags: broadband

[13 Dec 2005]

Capita beats IBM to £424m Birmingham IT deal

News Around 450 Birmingham council IT staff will be seconded into a joint-venture with Capita, called Service Birmingham Partnership, and there will be investment in a new MPLS-based wide area network and a Capita-run data centre.

Tags: birmingham, capita

[05 Dec 2005]

Bookmaker Coral bets £7m on broadband

News BT is currently rolling out the ADSL network for the bookmaker, based on its MPLS-based IP Clear offering. Bookmaker Coral is spending £7.1m over the next five years on a broadband managed network to connect its 1,268 UK branches.

Tags: broadband

[16 Nov 2005]

London to get citywide Ethernet LANs from BT

News Davis said: "Two of the POPs are co-located with MPLS POPs on the 21CN. If we needed to, we could hold metropolitan areas together with MPLS in the 21CN. BT will offer Ethernet networks that span London, in a new virtual private LAN service (VPLS...

Tags: 21cn, evlan, lan, ethernet

[15 Sep 2005]

Companies splash out millions on IP networks

News The telco will convert Air Products' sites in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East so that they use multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) technology, which generally helps transmit data packets more flexibly.

Tags: videoconferencing, ip networks, voip

[25 Aug 2005]

Vanco signs $85m airline deal

Vanco signs $85m airline deal

News ARINC will offer its new and existing customers Vanco's MPLS Matrix and IP Secure solutions - the technical heartbeat of the west London firm's virtual network operator model. UK virtual network operator Vanco has announced a five-year channel...

Tags: arinc, vanco

[14 Jun 2005]

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