Allied Telesis Awarded Multi-Million-Dollar Italian Consip Contract.MILANO, Italy -- Allied Telesis Allied Telesis is a telecommunications company, formerly Allied Telesyn. Headquartered in Japan, their North American headquarters are in Bothell, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. , global provider of secure Ethernet/IP access solutions and industry leader in the deployment of IP Triple Play networks over copper and fiber access infrastructures, today announces a joint business partnership with Telecom Italia S Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy. Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina. .p.A., Elsag S.p.A. and Selex Communications S.p.A., and has been awarded the Consip S.p.A. tender (the Italian Central Purchasing Company for Public Administration) for the supply of telecommunication services, voice, data and Local Area Networks for the Italian Public Administration. This achievement underlines the quality, value and experience of Allied Telesis' product offering that is readily available within this specific field; it also reflects the recognition of the specific expertise that Allied Telesis has to offer in the Italian Public Administration sector. The Public Administration tender was issued in June 2006 and assigned on February 6, 2007, to provide systems and services for Local Networks. This tender includes the supply and implementation of structured networks as well as active devices for Local Networks, along with the supply of the related telecommunication services. The award of this tender confirms that Allied Telesis is positioned as one of the main suppliers for local and central Public Administration services in Italy. In the last two years Allied Telesis has contributed to the upgrade of the technical infrastructure of the Italian Public Administration, delivering more than 14,000 switches to customers, including Poste Italiane Poste Italiane S.p.A. is the government-owned postal service of Italy, headquartered in Rome. Besides providing core postal services, Poste Italiane Group offers integrated products, as well as communication, logistics and financial services all over Italy. (the Italian PTT (1) (Postal, Telegraph & Telephone) The governmental agency responsible for combined postal, telegraph and telephone services in many European countries. (2) See push-to-talk. PTT - Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration ) and Istituto Nazionale di Previdenza Italiana, (the Italian Social Security Organization). "This contract proves again that Allied Telesis switches and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. infrastructure meet the stringent requirements of the central Public Administration. Allied Telesis products are sold into Public Administration via prestigious companies like Telecom Italia, Eslag and Selex Communications," said Antonio Belvisi, General Manager of Southern Europe Southern Europe or sometimes Mediterranean Europe is a region of the European continent. There is no clear definition of the term which can vary depending on whether geographic, cultural, linguistic or historical factors are taken into account. at Allied Telesis. About Allied Telesis Founded in 1987, Allied Telesis is a member of the Allied Telesis Group, a global provider of secure Ethernet/IP access solutions and an industry leader in the deployment of IP Triple Play networks over copper and fiber access infrastructure. Our POTS-to-10G iMAP integrated Multiservice Access Platform and iMG intelligent Multiservice Gateways, in conjunction with advanced switching, routing and WDM-based transport solutions, enable public and private network operators and service providers of all sizes to deploy scalable, carrier-grade networks for the cost-effective delivery of packet-based voice, video and data services. Visit us online at www.alliedtelesis.com. About Consip Consip S.p.A. is a public stock company owned by Italy's Ministry of the Economy and Finance (MEF MEF Marine Expeditionary Force MEF Metro Ethernet Forum MEF Ministerio de EconomÃa y Finanzas (Spanish) MEF Mobile Entertainment Forum MEF Middle East Forum (think tank) ) that operates on behalf of the State, within the framework of the strategic guidelines and tasks given by its sole shareholder. Consip was created in 1997 under the aegis of the then Minister of the Treasury, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born 9 December 1920 in Livorno) is an Italian politician and banker who has been both Prime Minister of Italy and President of the Italian Republic. He resigned as President before the swearing-in ceremony of his successor Giorgio Napolitano. -- who later became President of the Republic -- with the task of spearheading the modernization of Italy's Public Administration. The company's name, an acronym acronym: see abbreviation. A word typically made up of the first letters of two or more words; for example, BASIC stands for "Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. for Concessionaria Servizi Informatici Pubblici, clearly identifies its principal area of expertise: information technology. In 2000 the company was entrusted with the Program for the Rationalization of Public Expenditure, thus expanding into the field of government procurement Government procurement, also called public tendering, is the procurement of goods and services on behalf of a public authority, such as a government agency. With 10 to 15% of GDP in developed countries, and up to 20% in developing countries, government procurement accounts . Consip engages in complex projects in the fields of information technology, organizational processes, emerging technologies and communications in close interaction with the MEF, with the aim of promoting technological change within the Public Administration and of sustaining the development of an information society in Italy through the dissemination of the use of ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. . |
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