KDDI was contacted by a leading manufacturer who was looking to open new factories and connect upwards of 60 branch offices in Europe. The company required a high quality network with which to link its additional offices to the central systems in its Head Office so that employees in Europe could have access to the same resources as those in London.

KDDI’s consultants met with the manufacturer to get a full breakdown of the exact requirements and to understand what infrastructure and security was already in place. Following a review of the current network, we accompanied them to each of their sites in Europe and consulted with them about their plans for the future. One important factor was to plan for growth, as it was envisaged that as manufacturing increased they were going to substantially scale up the network. So it was important for us to find the most cost effective method to allow this.

Following the consultation process, we were in a position to recommend a solution. Locating a new office in a different country can be a particularly difficult operation if you do not understand the local telephony market. Through our global operations we have built up a wealth of experience in different countries and were perfectly placed to help them. For their larger offices and factories we recommended connection to KDDI’s  Global  IP-VPN. Not only did this provide a cost effective method to get connected, but it also is highly secure and resilient, because the network is MPLS and the architecture has full mesh capability. Having full mesh capability means the network is self healing so that if one link in the network is experiencing problems, the network can carry on operating and circumvent the problem area to ensure that no loss of service is experienced.

For the smaller satellite offices and certain partners to access their network, we provided our SSL-VPN connection combined with our ADSL and SDSL solutions around Europe. In this way whilst the operations in certain countries were waiting to achieve a critical mass, we were able to help them keep their network costs well below their expectations.

The KDDI solution was considered superior to the other possible options and we were contracted to implement the solution and carry out much of the System Integration (SI) work.

Our solution ensured that they are still able to efficiently and cost effectively produce the best products in the World, wherever they are made.

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