Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 17 | Page 10

NEWS Polynt accelerates integration and global expansion with new network Proximus one of the first operators to put Nokia router into its network A t the end of August 2018, Proximus announced its programme to tenfold the capacity of its IP transport network with its TITAN project. Nokia and Proximus have now announced that they are on schedule with their ‘TITAN’ (Terabit IP Transport and Aggregation Network) backbone network upgrade with 165 out of 600 buildings connected and 30% of 50,000 optical fibres migrated after only seven months. Proximus is one of the first operators in the world to carry customers’ traffic on the Nokia 7750 Service Router-14s (SR- 14s). Thanks to its unprecedented routing capability, the new equipment will allow the Proximus network to cope with the rise of data traffic of the coming decade, boosted by the ongoing Fibre for Belgium investment. This router will also help Proximus to lower costs by cutting energy use in half, offer unique security features and enable a superior digital experience for its customers. P olynt, a leading provider of chemical composites used in the production of plastics, paints, inks and adhesives, has signed a five-year contract with Orange Business Services for a global wide area network (WAN). The network meets Polynt’s requirement for a seamless, global end-to-end communications solution. The new infrastructure will help Polynt, based in Bergamo, Italy, drive innovation inside the organisation and take full advantage of further digitalisation. It will connect 44 sites in 15 countries across four continents, including North and Latin America, Europe and Asia. Other benefits include increased network performance with redundancy and high resiliency. By consolidating network design and maintenance with one single provider, Polynt will reduce complexity and strengthen application performance and agility. 10 INTELLIGENTCIO Orange Business Services will also provide Enterprise Application Management with Riverbed, a fully-managed service that delivers application acceleration and WAN optimisation. This will significantly improve the end-user experience of using enterprise applications by accelerating response times. It will also give Polynt more visibility on the network and applications and allow it to use data centres more effectively. For this project, Proximus, Belgium’s largest telco operator, worked in close partnership with Nokia’s team located in Antwerp, a Belgium World Competence Centre. TITAN will connect Proximus’ mobile, high-speed DSL and FTTH networks. The upgraded backbone will provide support for new services such as augmented and Virtual Reality, IoT and the rollout of 5G. “Developing a global WAN with Orange Business Services will allow us to gain central control over our global IT infrastructure and to simplify contract management, making it easier to accelerate integration of new acquisitions to support our global expansion,” said Annamaria Codari, Global IT Director at Polynt. www.intelligentcio.com