TeliaSonera and Orange Business Services have announced that they have partnered to offer TeliaSonera's corporate customers access to Orange’s suite of global, integrated, secure and customizable communications systems.
Via the partnership, TeliaSonera will integrate its regional IP
services in the Nordic and Baltic countries with Orange's global IP services. The move will allow TeliaSonera to offer its customers communication services across the different service platforms globally.
“Our corporate customers with requirements beyond the TeliaSonera Nordic and Baltic home markets will benefit from this agreement. This is an important step in TeliaSonera’s strive to create growth via new mobile and IP-based services together with increased simplicity for our customers,” said Terje Christoffersen, group vice president, Corporate Marketing, Products and Services for TeliaSonera AB.
TeliaSonera has another standing contract with Orange through the company's mobile communications unit FreeMove, the international mobile alliance between Orange, TeliaSonera, TIM (Telecom Italia (
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“Orange Business Services and TeliaSonera are both in the forefront of providing leading IP services to support the business processes of corporate customers. Through this contract we are looking forward to provide TeliaSonera’s international customers a truly global converged service offering,” added Orange Business’ senior vice President EMEA Philippe Koebel.
Today’s news follows Orange Business’ introduction of
Unified Defense, an integrated security system which delivers all features from one single hardware platform. Specifically, the system combines a network firewall
, anti-virus gateway, intrusion detection probe and prevention system, and URL filtering engine onto one server.
The new system is an addition to Orange Business Services’ suite of security services including authentication, firewall, anti-virus and Intrusion (
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Unified Defense will be offered in four configurations for it to be suited for enterprises of different sizes. The company designed Unified Defense's security features for them not to be used simultaneously.
The new system can be fully integrated with Orange Business Services' other managed systems, available within the company’s security portfolio. Enterprises will be able to choose and implement the best combination of systems according to their needs, geographical configuration and budget. Once they choose the features they need, the enterprise can then integrate them into one single box.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne’s columnist page.
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