Viatel completes the most comprehensive VPN portfolio in the UK

The most flexible and cost effective portfolio of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) for companies keen to use applications across their businesses and employees.

Viatel, the pan-European communications company, has removed the restrictions on technology and connectivity options by adding MPLS across its UK and pan-European network. Viatel is the first service provider to offer class of service over the full range of access technologies from Broadband to high bandwidth Ethernet services. This will enable businesses to give any size office and remote workers access to advanced applications such as Citrix, VOIP or video conferencing.

Roberto Bonanzinga, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Viatel said: "For too long businesses have been unable to gain the benefits of advanced applications available to major corporates due to the high investments needed in infrastructure.

While our competitors have been slow and complacent in bringing such services to market, Viatel will continue to drive innovation to bring further choice and cost effective options to our customers."

Viatel offer businesses total flexibility in their choice of VPN, supporting hybrid solutions with a mix of MPLS and IPSec technologies and across all access options (broadband, dial up, Leased lines and Ethernet) all covered by comprehensive service level agreements. Global roaming for mobile workers is supported either via direct dial into the MPLS VPN or access via the internet over standard IPSec VPN.

Bonanzinga continued: "Our customers have many requirements that can only be truly satisfied by providing flexible technology choices that really deliver true business benefits to their organisations. Customers can choose for us to fully manage their VPN or if they'd rather keep some control they can manage the VPN themselves with our wires only service."

Viatel MPLS VPN additionally supports a full suite of managed hosting and security products tailored to the needs of businesses. These include global roaming, remote backup, network traffic scanning, security and both co-location and dedicated hosting platforms. All services are covered by round the clock service management and technical support to free valuable in-house IT resources.

27/10/2004

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Notes for editors

MPLS -     Multiprotocol Label Switching prioritises time critical data such as video and voice over emails, ensuring smooth running.

VPN -     Virtual Private Network, a technology that routes sensitive data over private internet circuits for security.

COS -     Class of service allows you to assign different priorities to different types of data. This is important for streams of data you want to arrive on time, voice or video for example, where delay affects the quality.

 

About Viatel

Viatel is a pan-European business communications company operating across 6 European markets, including the UK, France and Germany. It has more than 10,000 business customers, providing them a range of business communication services that help companies of all sizes to access the internet, connect their people and places, manage their web applications and increase the security of their data. Headed by Lucy Woods, formerly of WorldCom EMEA and BT, the company employs 200 people throughout Western Europe.

For further information on Viatel, please visit www.viatel.com

For further information please call:

James Ralph or Nick Keegan on +44 (0)20 7340 0430

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