| COLT Telecom signs multi-million contract with Sungard Availability Services
Worth an estimated EUR4 million over five years, the contract involves COLT delivering its High Speed Service (HSS) optical connectivity solution to SunGard. COLT HSS, based on Nortel Networks optical storage connectivity solutions, provides the basis for the second generation of ScaleNet, SunGard's metropolitan area network and part of the company's 25,000-mile network backbone. SunGard connects its customers to ScaleNet using the COLT LANLink portfolio, which provides Ethernet connections over the wide area network, enabling SunGard customers to back up their data. LANLink offers many bandwidths between 2Mbps and 1Gbps, which are easily scalable when customers need extra capacity. Developed in late 2001 with COLT's expertise, ScaleNet was the first high bandwidth metropolitan area network for the UK business continuity industry. To keep ScaleNet meeting the business and technology demands of its customers, SunGard chose to invest further with COLT and has deployed COLT HSS within ScaleNet's second-generation infrastructure. ScaleNet connects SunGard's four London recovery campuses, which include the £40 million London Technology Centre (LTC) in Hounslow - Europe's largest purpose-built information availability and business continuity data centre - as well as interfacing with SunGard's national and international networking infrastructure for enhanced resilience. The linking of its London recovery campuses provides SunGard customers with a choice of flexible, cost-effective solutions that meet their budgetary and business availability requirements, including bandwidth-on-demand and carrier class networking. And with LTC providing connectivity between ScaleNet and SunGard's UK network of recovery centres, the company's overall rollback position is enhanced.
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22nd June 2004 • Region: UK •Type:
Article •Topic: Recovery
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