Equant Offers Outsourced Cache Management Service

Equant is launching a managed caching service that could help multinational companies reduce their IP VPN traffic by as much as 40% while improving response-time for some Web-enabled applications by 95%. The new service uses Network Appliance’s caches installed at the customer premise.
Corporate VPN caches are especially effective for commonly accessed intranet pages, MS Office documents and e-learning applications. As a managed service, Equant provides 24X7 monitoring, maintenance of caches, and service level agreements for parameters such as service availability, fault and change management. Simon Abrahms, Product Manager for Equant’s new Cache Management service, said the bandwidth savings, improved application performance and a single contact point for customer support are primary benefits to the new offering. He noted that reduced bandwidth usage is not antithetical to Equant because the company’s business proposition is not about “selling big pipes.” Two major European multinationals — one of the world’s largest retailers and a global leader in electronics manufacturing — have already deployed Equant Cache Management on their corporate IP VPN networks, with a total of 380 caches in more than 50 countries.
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