WorldCom IP VPN Dedicated Services - Customer Directed
Offers Businesses Secure, Web-based Control of an Outsourced VPN
March 2002 - WorldCom (NASDAQ: WCOM), the leading global business data and Internet communications provider, today announced the immediate availability of WorldCom IP VPN Dedicated Services - Customer Directed to enterprise customers throughout Europe. The service uniquely allows customer-directed control of an outsourced Internet Protocol virtual private network (IP VPN) through an easy-to-use Web-based interface.
WorldCom IP VPN Customer Directed offers a best-of-both-worlds choice for businesses that want to supplement the operating efficiencies of an outsourced, fully managed IP VPN with the ability to easily administer network changes and security policies, themselves, at their convenience. Targeting businesses of all sizes, WorldCom offers a choice of fully managed, customer managed and, now, customer directed IP VPN services.
"WorldCom's objective is to provide communication solutions tailored to meet each customer's individual needs - to enhance their business operations with maximum efficiency and reliability," said LOCAL SPOKESPERSON. "The addition of the Customer Directed service to WorldCom's VPN portfolio allows WorldCom to offer our customers the industry's widest array of solutions from which to choose. Regardless of the customer's particular VPN management preference or requirement, WorldCom has the right solution."
WorldCom IP VPN Customer Directed employs SmartPipes, Inc. technology to allow a company's network administrators to implement day-to-day network changes and deploy network security policies in real-time. Through the intuitive Web-based graphical user interface, authorized in-house IT personnel can enable VPN users at any branch office, remote location or business partner site so they can access applications and transmit private corporate information securely and reliably over the Internet.
WorldCom IP VPN Customer Directed is now available in 19 European countries including Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, with plans to a further roll-out services into Latin America, Asia and Africa. The service is also available in the U.S. and Canada.
In order to familiarize European businesses with this innovative IP VPN solution,
WorldCom is offering customers a 30-day Customer Directed service trial at no
additional cost or obligation to purchase the service.
WorldCom IP VPN Dedicated Services - Customer Directed Features
Offered as a fully managed, site-to-site IP VPN solution, WorldCom provides Customer Directed users with Cisco Systems customer premise equipment, a Web-based customer-directed software tool and scalable WorldCom IP VPN connectivity (including the local loop). Monitoring and management of the router, secure encrypted tunnels and dedicated links are also part of the service - all backed by WorldCom's industry-leading performance guarantees. WorldCom IP VPN Customer Directed offers connection speeds from 64 Kbps through 34 Mbps and IPSec-based security. All WorldCom-managed IP VPN services are standards-based with 24x7 centralized monitoring and management through WorldCom's dedicated global VPN Network Operations Center.
As more businesses turn to the Internet to securely communicate and conduct business, applications such as intranets, extranets and e-commerce services become increasingly important business requirements. IP VPNs are the foundation for these applications, allowing companies to enhance communications on a global scale in a cost-effective and secure manner via the Internet. With an IP VPN, a company can connect its headquarters, branch offices and mobile workers worldwide, using dedicated site-to-site and global remote access services to reliably and securely access and transmit private company information over the Internet. Extranet links to maintain communications with key customers, vendors, suppliers and business partners can also be established and managed through WorldCom IP VPN services.
The complete suite of WorldCom VPN Services in Europe includes:
IP VPN Remote Services - Fully Managed, a fully managed remote access IP VPN solution;
IP VPN Dedicated Services - Fully Managed, a fully managed dedicated access IP VPN solution;
IP VPN Dedicated Services - Customer Directed, a fully managed site-to-site IP VPN solution allowing customer directed control via Web-based interface; and
Managed Services Complete - Private IP, an IP-enhanced frame relay VPN that provides dedicated and remote access.
Each runs over WorldCom's facilities-based global networks and is a part of the full continuum of business communications solutions WorldCom provides to enterprises of all sizes around the world.
Contact: Stephan Deutsch
WorldCom Corporate Communications EMEA
sd@de.uu.net
