11/25/2010 - Network Directors see clearly now with Easynet and Ipanema

November 25, 2010 - London - Global businesses now have access to a clear and detailed vision of their global networks following the launch of Easynet Global Services‘ latest suite of Network Performance Management solutions. Offered in conjunction with Ipanema, the solutions enable CIOs to gain efficiencies by ensuring that network consolidation and centralisation leads to an enhanced end-user experience. These solutions have been launched in response to specific customer requirements identified at Easynet’s Customer Advisory Boards1.

Easynet customer The Van Ameyde Group will soon be seeing the benefits of the Ipanema partnership. The Van Ameyde Group provides major international insurance companies, captives, brokers and fleet owners with a comprehensive solution for domestic and international claims. For Van Ameyde, Easynet is implementing a fully managed global MPLS network. The organisation required an in-depth understanding of the business application performance across its Wide Area Network. The decision to adopt Easynet’s Application Performance Optimiser solution will enable the organisation to maintain a centralised data centre infrastructure and gain efficient control of its data, security and costs.

The three components of the Application Performance platform (Optimiser, Controller and Reporter) can be used by Easynet’s MPLS customers to ensure that applications running over a centralised Wide Area Network are fully secure and have guaranteed network performance and user experience, this being achieved through deeper network visibility, control and optimisation.

The Application Performance products are ideal for growing global organisations such as The Van Ameyde Group as they remove the need for server infrastructure locally, so local IT support is minimised, costs are optimised, and standardisation is easier to achieve. They also ensure the customer has full visibility of application traffic, to enable them to choose the appropriate access type for any new sites and optimise the existing access circuits.

Justin Fielder, chief planning and technology officer for Easynet Global Services said, “The message from our Customer Advisory Boards was loud and clear: our customers need to achieve more, with less, and needed to address the experience that centralised applications can sometimes perform poorly. That means squeezing efficiencies from the network, consolidating IT infrastructure and maximising application performance to gain a competitive edge. Our new products enable our customers to do exactly that”.

Jean-François Rousseau, Vice President Service Provider Business Development for Ipanema Technologies added: "With their new Application Performance Optimiser, Controller and Reporter, Easynet demonstrates a strong vision of the evolution of their MPLS/VPN services. Easynet customers now have a range of options to help them maximise the return on their WAN investment. Enterprises want to consolidate their IS infrastructure but are worried about end-user performance. These new services will not only allow IS infrastructure consolidation but will also enable customers to provide their end-users with a defined and measurable quality of experience and allow for much simpler IS & network change management. The choice of Ipanema by Easynet is a great endorsement of our service platform for service providers."

1 Easynet holds regular local and global Customer Advisory Boards in which groups of Easynet Global Services’ customers discuss and feedback on Easynet’s strategic business plans.

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Easynet Global Services‘ suite of WAN Optimization solutions based on Ipanema’s application performance management system enables any large enterprise to have full control of their global network. The unique, patented, Autonomic Networking system guarantees business application performance and continuity in all enterprise environments through tightly coupled features that together bring a unique level of intelligence to the enterprise network:

Application Visibility, providing full understanding of application usage and performance over the global network - from the smallest detail up to high-level SLA-based application performance management and capacity planning,

QoS & Control, dynamically adjusting network behavior and resources to the exact application traffic demand - guaranteeing critical application performance in the most complex and changing traffic situations,

WAN Optimization, accelerating applications response times and offering additional virtual bandwidth to the network,

Dynamic WAN Selection for multi-networked branch offices, selecting automatically the best network according to actual performance and application traffic characteristics.

As a result, the user experience is guaranteed, the business applications are accelerated, the hybrid network is unified, the costs are reduced, the WAN becomes coherent, predictable and aligned with business needs - driving higher levels of enterprise performance.

About Easynet Global Services

Easynet Global Services is a worldwide provider of managed network, managed hosting and value added integration services such as Telepresence. The company has customers in 50 countries, and 1000 staff in 25 global offices. Through a consultative approach, it engages with its customers to fully understand their business challenges. The company combines global reach with local expertise, providing a personalised customer experience wherever its customers are in the world. 

Easynet Global Services’ customers include Via Michelin, FOX, Brinks, Transport for London, EDF, SAGE, Q Park and Bridgestone.

Together with the management team Easynet is owned by LDC (Lloyds TSB Development Capital). LDC is the leading mid-market private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group.

For more information visit www.easynet.com.

About Ipanema Technologies

The Ipanema System enables any large enterprise to have full control and optimization of their global networks; private cloud, public cloud or both. It unifies performance across disparate networks. It dynamically adapts to whatever is happening in the networks and guarantees constant control of critical applications. It is the only system with a central management and reporting platform that scales to the levels required by Telcos and large enterprises. With solutions used extensively by many of the world’s largest telecom providers and enterprises across business and public sectors, Ipanema controls and optimizes close to 100,000 sites among 1,000 customers.