The
Belgian
Federal
Public
Service
of
Foreign
Affairs
Chooses
Orange
Business
Services
for
Global
Communications
Infrastructure
8
December
2009
The
Belgian
Federal
Public
Service
of
Foreign
Affairs
has
selected
Orange
Business
Services
for
the
delivery
of a
global
wide
area
network
and
value-added
telecommunication
services
connecting
all
Belgian
embassies,
consulates
and
other
formal
representations
abroad
spanning
over
100
countries.
The
contract
has
a
value
of
more
then
50
million
euro.
At
the
heart
of
the
solution,
Orange
will
provide
its
global
IP
VPN
services
through
either
terrestrial
or
satellite
links.
The
IP
VPN
services
will
be
optimized
through
a
converged
(voice,
video
and
data)
network
including
a
backup
and
non-critical
traffic
offloading
architecture.
In
addition,
Orange
will
provide
a
range
of
value
added
services,
including
firewalls,
routers,
WAN
optimization
and
encryption
devices
as
well
as a
24 x
7
trilingual
support
and
management
desk.
The
network
is
slated
to
be
fully
operational
by
July
1,
2010,
the
start
of
the
Belgian
chair
of
the
EU.
“During
the
RFP
process,
Orange
offered
the
added
value
of
more
sites
with
fixed
connectivity
and
more
secondary
connections
via
DSL,
which
ensured
critical
redundancy
within
the
solution,”
commented
Jorg
Leenaards,
ICT
director
at
The
Belgian
Federal
Public
Service
of
Foreign
Affairs.
“Overall,
the
Orange
solution
gave
us
highly
secure
data
transmission
and
reduced
risk
at
an
overall
more
competitive
price.”
The
global
WAN
solution
will
allow
The
Belgian
Federal
Public
Service
of
Foreign
Affairs
to
execute
its
strategy
in
order
to:
- optimize and control overall costs;
- establish a long term relationship with Orange Business Services, who has the broadest global network coverage and local support with its own employees in 166 countries;
- deploy a unified, converged and modular environment with the ability to sustain multiple applications (voice, data, video, priority-based routing);
- provide optimized and better performing solutions for end-users; and
- enhance network stability with pro-active and efficient management, as well as introduce flexibility in capacity management and geographical reach.
Dr.
Helmut
Reisinger,
senior
vice
president,
Europe
at
Orange
Business
Services
remarked,
“This
contract
is
one
of
the
biggest
multinational
ICT
tenders
from
governmental
institutions
that
has
come
on
the
market
in
Belgium
in
recent
years.
We
are
grateful
for
the
award
which
is a
huge
recognition
of
our
work
at a
global
scale,
as
well
as
the
work
from
our
multinational
bid
team
lead
out
of
Belgium.
The
focus
of
Orange
in
helping
governments
to
provide
state-of-the-art
ICT
infrastructure
is
paying
off,
and
The
Belgian
Federal
Public
Service
of
Foreign
Affairs
adds
to a
series
of
recent
wins
in
this
domain.”
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