WAN and application performance boosted by BT

Companies look for a way to manage their IT environments better will now benefit from the launch of two new services recently announced by BT, whilst communications providers will be able to take advantage of the announcement of reduction in pricing of Openreach wholesale divisions backhaul.

Enterprise customer are being offered help in boosting productivity, maximise investment returns, and improve the performance of their applications with BTs new application and WAN optimization services.

Vice president of network services at BT, Jean-Noel Moneton said “As enterprises look to be more efficient with fewer resources and finances, a managed service environment relieves them of the challenges surrounding the management of multiple vendors. The services we announce today are the latest additions to our Applications Assured Infrastructure portfolio, which is a set of repeatable managed services that audit, monitor and optimise the performance of applications throughout their life cycle.”
On average BT Broadband said that its WAN optimization service would speed up the use of applications between remote offices, mobile workers and datacenters by between five and fifty times although in some cases application performance can be improved by as much as a hundred times. To ensure the best performance of their business, the design of the tool will give IT Directors the ability to understand their service levels better.

“BT Global Services’ fully managed WAN optimisation service brings its customers a valuable opportunity to further consolidate IT infrastructure, and help them create a more efficient workforce and IT environment,” said the chief executive at Riverbed, Jerry Kennelly.

BT Openreach has also announced a reduction of its prices throughout its backhaul and access products to give service providers the ability to offer their customers more economical and better quality service. This, BT says, would improve the Ethernet “middle mile” capabilities. The reductions of 31 percent for rental contracts and as much as 62 percent for other services are now available.

Steve Robertson, BT Openreach chief executive said “For our key broadband suppliers this means the opportunity to buy super-fast gigabit capacity at drastically reduced prices, and the chance to enhance their own network capacity with minimal incremental investment. In addition, communication providers will soon be able to purchase 10 times the capacity they buy today at more or less the same price, allowing business customers to improve their connectivity at a fraction of the cost, and providing a boost for UK competitiveness in an uncertain economic climate. We feel confident that these price reductions represent great news for communications providers.”