Asif Sadiq comments on NEC's European outsourcing to COLT Telecom

1. Case Study Exceed Together
NEC Europe simplifies
pan-European network with
COLT IP VPN
Customer: NEC Europe rationalised multiple networks into a single,
NEC Europe Ltd
stable and cost-effective European infrastructure with
Sector: COLT IP VPN
Manufacturing
Business: NEC is a leading global manufacturer and COLT’s London data centres. In this way, there
Manufacturer of telecommunication, computer service provider of telecommunication, computer would be instantaneous failover to the secondary
and electronic devices and electronic devices that has been focused equipment in the event of a failure at either site.
on technological innovation for more than a
Challenge: century. NEC Europe’s R&D function and regional Sadiq said, “COLT was the only network provider
Deploying a more stable and cost-effective headquarters are based in London with 26 offices that showed the expertise we were looking
network for its pan-European operations across Europe. for – the pre-sales and engineering teams were
impressive and took time to understand our needs
Services used: Business challenge before designing the solution.”
COLT IP VPN NEC Europe was using a variety of suppliers and
networking technologies to connect its European Benefits – stable network and strong
sites together. This was proving expensive and relationship
inconsistent, with major differences in service COLT’s IP VPN has proved to be a very solid
levels between countries. The IT team decided to and stable network solution for NEC right across
rationalise its network to a single pan-European Europe. Sadiq said, “The COLT solution has
solution that would help it reduce costs and vastly delivered beyond expectations – performance is
improve service reliability. second to none.”
Asif Sadiq, Regional IT Manager at NEC Europe “COLT also works as a partner that truly tries to
said, “Our network was not supporting our understand the business needs of its customers.
European business properly and was time- This is very different from many of its competitors
“COLT was the only network consuming to manage. We wanted to find a single who purely focus on the sale. COLT is a great
provider that showed the pan-European network partner who could also help company to work with as it is open and agile. We
us build a true business continuity environment for have regular access to COLT’s technical experts
expertise we were looking for –
our network – within a tight budget.” and senior business executives and they really
the pre-sales and engineering
give us confidence that they take our business
teams were impressive and took NEC Europe decided on IP VPN technology and seriously.”
time to understand our needs looked at several different suppliers to deliver a
before designing the solution.” managed solution that would include equipment Looking to the future, the network will become
Asif Sadiq, failover to a secondary site. increasingly central to NEC Europe’s ICT
Regional IT Manager, NEC Europe infrastructure. The IT team is looking at deploying
COLT solution VoIP and an IT centralisation programme that will
NEC Europe selected COLT to deliver a managed take advantage of new virtualisation and enterprise
IP VPN with equipment hosted in NEC’s main cloud computing technologies.
offices and continuously replicated in one of
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