BT Infonet's Application Centric VPN Service Honored With Frost & Sullivan's IP Communications Product of the Year Award.EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif. -- BT Infonet, a leading provider of managed network communications services for multinational entities, today announced its next generation MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. virtual private network service, Application Centric VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. (AC VPN), has been honored with Frost & Sullivan's 2005 IP Communications A general term for networks that use the IP protocol for voice (VoIP) and video traffic. See IP telephony. Product of the Year Award. The award was presented to BT Infonet last night at Frost & Sullivan's Excellence in 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. Awards Banquet in London. Every year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has developed and introduced an innovative technology that offers significant contributions to the ICT industry. The award also recognizes BT Infonet's overall technical excellence and its commitment toward communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry innovation. AC VPN was developed by BT Infonet to act as a distributed intelligent system that adapts to the overall bandwidth, performance and application performance targets defined by multinational corporations
"As part of its ongoing technological innovation, BT Infonet has developed a superior VPN solution that incorporates application management and offers dynamic allocation of resources allocation of resources Apportionment of productive assets among different uses. The issue of resource allocation arises as societies seek to balance limited resources (capital, labour, land) against the various and often unlimited wants of their members. to support business objectives," said Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst, ICT Europe, Fernando Elizalde. "Frost & Sullivan is proud to recognize BT Infonet with the IP Communications - 2005 Product of the Year Award for AC VPN and the advancements in communications technology the company has commercialized." "Several of our clients are already seeing less interruption of business processes, faster time to determine and correct performance issues and more productive use of their IT resources using AC VPN," said Jean-Noel Moneton, vice president of Network Services Marketing Services marketing is marketing based on relationship and value. It may be used to market a service or a product. Marketing a service-base business is different from marketing a product-base business. for BT Infonet. "Positive third-party validation such as this award confirms AC VPN's value proposition. We're thrilled that Frost & Sullivan has recognized our more than 25 year history of innovation in VPN services." About Frost & Sullivan Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , has been partnering with clients to support the development of innovative strategies for more than 40 years. The company's industry expertise integrates growth consulting, growth partnership services, and corporate management training to identify and develop opportunities. Frost & Sullivan serves an extensive clientele that includes Global 1000 companies, emerging companies, and the investment community by providing comprehensive industry coverage that reflects a unique global perspective and combines ongoing analysis of markets, technologies, econometrics econometrics, technique of economic analysis that expresses economic theory in terms of mathematical relationships and then tests it empirically through statistical research. , and demographics. For more information, visit www.frost.com. About BT Infonet BT Infonet is a leading provider of managed network communications services for multinational entities, fully owned by BT Group and part of BT Global Services. BT Infonet offers integrated solutions optimizing the complex relationship between enterprise applications and the global network. BT Infonet provides local service support in over 70 countries and territories and its network is accessible from more than 180 countries. Additional information about BT Infonet is available at www.bt.infonet.com. About BT BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services. BT consists principally of three lines of business: --BT Retail, providing a comprehensive range of communications and related services to more than 20 million UK consumers and businesses. --BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators and service providers including the provision of broadband and private circuits. --BT Global Services, providing networked IT services to meet the needs of multi-site organizations globally. BT Global Services operates in more than 130 countries and also offers international carrier services. From January 2006, there will be a fourth business called openreach. This business will be responsible for the nationwide local BT network which covers the "first mile" of wires that connects homes and businesses across the UK to their service providers. openreach will provide communications providers with services and products associated with that network. In the year ended 31 March 2005, BT Group's turnover was GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 18,623 million with profit before taxation of GBP 2,354 million. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt |
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