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Givaudan Selects Orange Business Services for Network Acceleration

Orange Business Services (News - Alert), the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services and a global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations, has been selected by Givaudan for network acceleration.

Givaudan is a major player in the fragrance and flavor industry headquartered in Vernier, Switzerland.

Officials with Orange Business Services said that Givaudan is using the Business Acceleration network optimization strategy and Riverbed (News - Alert)-based Enterprise Application Management from the company.

Orange is operating Givaudan's global wide area network connecting 130 network points of presence in 82 locations and 45 countries.

"We decided to choose Orange Business Services based on the excellent Proof of Concept. Orange is a trusted advisor in a long-term partnership and provides broad expertise in the Enterprise Application Management solution from Riverbed,” said Jean-Yves Benedeyt, IT global infrastructure manager, Givaudan, in a statement.

Jean-Yves Benedeyt said that the company did not need higher bandwidths, because certain applications in particular are much faster now and are no longer a bottleneck in productivity.

Company officials said that the network optimization strategy from Orange Business Services proved to Givaudan that not only could its actual issue with the new document management platform be solved, but also most of its other business applications could be accelerated and optimized.

According to company officials, Orange provided a fully managed, global acceleration solution that is a natural extension of Givaudan's IP VPN including deployment and management of Riverbed Steelheads on 74 sites around the world.

"Orange Business Services offers managed optimization solutions at global level to meet two key business drivers – tangible cost savings for customers and increasing business productivity," said Helmut Reisinger, senior vice president, Europe, Orange Business Services.

Reisinger said that the company has extensive experience in helping customers optimize their network resources and improve the performance of their applications which increases end-user productivity and optimize user experience.

In other industry news, in just a few weeks, thousands of IT and communications professionals will gather together at Cisco (News - Alert) Live, a four-day event that offers a combination of education and training on the latest technologies and trends, and OPNET Technologies is one participant that cannot wait for the event to roll around on July 10.

“OPNET is a regular exhibitor at Cisco (News - Alert) Live,” Susan Cole, vice president of marketing and business development at OPNET told TMCnet in a recent interview. “Cisco Live is a great event to engage with IT and communications professionals and showcase OPNET’s solutions for network and application performance management.”

OPNET has been a leading provider of solutions for application and network performance management. In particular, the company has emerged as a leader in the network diagramming space through its NetMapper solution.

Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin