Residential sales and lettings firm Hamptons
International has signed a three-year £1.6m contract to use
Easynet’s next-generation communications network to cut
costs.
Hamptons will use Easynet’s MPLS (multi-protocol label
switching) network to connect 72 of its sites in the UK and share
property and applicant details between offices across the
infrastructure.
Hamptons customers will be able to walk into any branch and
receive details on properties anywhere in the country. The firm
will be able to market vendors' properties actively to any
applicants, regardless of their location.
Jon Baker, head of IT services at Hamptons, said, "The
high-capacity and resilient network will enable our national office
network to increase levels of customer service, and it provides
capacity for our future plans."
MPLS technology allows firms to make sure that the most
important data gets to the right people quickly, helping to avoid
network log-jams.
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