Food giant Nestlé has extended its global services
agreement with BT to develop and manage its global wide area
network services for another three years.
The contract is designed to manage a global
virtual private network using multi-protocol
label switching services connecting more than 1,000 sites
worldwide.
This includes multimedia voice and video running across the network
as well as the roll-out of managed audio conferencing
services.
The agreement also covers the management of secure inbound and
outbound internet traffic using BT’s Managed Firewall service.
A flexible and innovative global service level agreement jointly
developed by BT and Nestlé would support the requirements of the
contract across all services, the two companies said.
François Barrault, CEO BT Global Services, said, “This contract
will mark more than 15 years of relationship with Nestlé,
initiated through BT Infonet.
“It demonstrates Nestlé’s ongoing confidence in BT’s commitment
to deliver service improvements and a wide range of additional
capabilities.
“This is a further validation of our strategy aimed at delivering
high value and strong alignment between
BT and its global customers.”
In November 2004
BT bought Infonet Services for £520m.
Infonet operated in more than 70 countries and supplied services
such as virtual private networks and ATM (asynchronous transfer
mode), to thousands of multinational companies, including
Nestlé.
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