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Equant Messaging Protection Suite Secures More Than 200,000 Global Users from Growing E-mail Risk.


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 today announced that its Equant Messaging Protection Suite, a managed Internet e-mail service for protecting multinational businesses from spam, viruses and corporate policy violations, has secured more than 200,000 users globally since its launch in February.

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With recent outbreaks of e-mail-borne viruses and malware increasing the risk to businesses, EMPS can ensure greater than 95 percent elimination of spam. EMPS forms a protective barrier against e-mail threats, using its globally load-balanced data center network to perform multiple layers of spam and virus filtration, thereby allowing only clean data streams to penetrate corporate networks.

Early adopters of EMPS include Electrolux, the world's largest producer of appliances and equipment for kitchen cleaning and outdoor use. EMPS is enabling Electrolux to protect more than 25,000 user mailboxes in Europe, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  and Asia.

"Equant has one of the industry's strongest track records in supporting global corporations," said Laurent De Haas de Haas as a surname can refer to:
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, head of IT Operations, Electrolux IT Solutions AB. "Our spam and virus problem knew no borders, negatively impacting our business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets  across the globe. We needed a solution that could seamlessly scale with the growth of the spam epidemic, and EMPS offered the protection we needed to fight back."

"Equant's messaging solution offers peace-of-mind to global enterprises by managing a world class protection service, with quality of service that surpasses what organizations can do with internally managed solutions," said Mark Wigington, vice president of IT Services for Equant. "Customers across the globe continue to rank e-mail protection as one of their primary IT concerns, citing specifically that they cannot expend internal resources to oversee a complicated messaging infrastructure. EMPS, combined with Equant's 50 years of messaging experience, is an ideal solution for multinational enterprises looking to out-task time-consuming messaging management."

EMPS, which is delivered through a partnership with FrontBridge Technologies, also enables multinational businesses to implement an e-mail risk management program, comply with government and industry regulations, minimize corporate liability and guarantee security while vastly reducing the load on internal resources, hardware, software and bandwidth.

EMPS is designed specifically for multinational corporations

Main article: multinational corporations

  • ABB
  • ABN-Amro
  • Accenture
  • Aditya Birla
  • Affiliated Computer Services Inc
  • Airbus
  • Allianz
  • Altria Group
  • American Express
  • Akzo Nobel
  • Apple Inc.
, built on a global network of eight load-balanced, fully redundant data center peers located in strategic Internet locations. The FrontBridge network is the only one to demonstrate 100 percent historical uptime, ensuring e-mail availability. An outside firm is used to validate the FrontBridge network uptime, and performance is verified each month. Additional service features include multi-engine virus scanning, intelligent message routing and end-user notification interfaces in regional languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

About Equant

Equant is a recognized industry leader in global communications services for multinational businesses. Equant combines its network expertise with its expanded services capabilities to provide global, integrated and customized communication services to enable its customers' key business processes. Equant serves thousands of the world's top companies, with the industry's most extensive portfolio of communications services and network solutions, including the market-leading IP 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.  used by nearly 1,300 global businesses. Equant, a subsidiary of France Telecom, consistently leads industry surveys in corporate user satisfaction.
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