Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
BT has launched its MPLS-based Intelligent Virtual Private Network (iVPN) service in 172 countries, billing it as the first service for global enterprise customers launched on its global 21CN network.
According to BT, "iVPN enables businesses to manage and prioritise traffic over their IT network, for example it ensures that email, voice, video and other business applications are run more efficiently...[and] the secure and resilient service also offers multi-national businesses with higher service availability guarantees, shorter problem resolution times and decreased implementation times.
BT is combining iVPN with other services such as Internet based access, application optimisation, voice management, video conferencing, unified communications, data centres, call centres, security and mobility. It has named initial customers as Byblos Bank, one of the top three banks in Lebanon, and Duni, "Europe's leading operator for table-setting and take-away packaging."
Nathan Bell, general manager, portfolio and partnerships, BT Asia Pacific, said: "Improving efficiency, value and customer experience for clients across all services is the goal that BT is continually striving towards. The launch of BT iVPN is a significant step towards achieving this and the harmonisation of our portfolio of services."
iVPN offers six classes-of-service for voice, video and data and Supports 'Community of Interest' intranets and extranets. It is certified to support Cisco Telepresence and supports a range of added-value BT managed application services, including: application optimisation; One Voice Global VPN (one global VPN across multiple countries and enterprise locations) and unified communications video.
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