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THUS Gains National Ethernet Award

Posted: 28th May, 2003 By: MarkJ

THUS Telecom, the self-proclaimed first and only provider of National Ethernet services in the UK, has today been awarded the Cisco Powered Network designation:

THUS AWARDED "CISCO POWERED NETWORK" STATUS FOR NATIONAL ETHERNET LAN-EXTENSION SERVICES

THUS plc, one of the UK's leading providers of voice, networking, Internet and contact centre services, today announced that it has been awarded the Cisco Powered Network designation for its National Ethernet LAN extension services. The Cisco Powered Network program is a co-marketing program including a designation which represents commitment by leading service providers around the world to build their networks based on Cisco's industry-leading technology. Demand for THUS's market leading National Ethernet service is highlighted today with the announcement of a number of new customers including the Scottish Executive, Baillie Gifford and Imperial College - helping deliver new revenues to the Company.

"THUS is the first and currently the only provider of National Ethernet services on a UK-wide basis to carry the Cisco Powered Network designation. This status helps THUS's customers understand that its services are delivered over a reliable, high performance Cisco-based architecture designed with secure, Quality of Service based applications in mind," said Duncan Mitchell, Vice President and Managing Director, UK and Ireland, Cisco Systems.

"THUS National Ethernet provides us with a high-quality cost-effective network linking multiple sites at broadband speeds," said Colin Lennox, Technical Services Manager at Baillie Gifford - one of the UK's leading independent investment management firms. "National Ethernet delivers us quality and reliability through tight service-level agreements, underpinned by the widely recognised Cisco Powered Network designation. The service also provides us with extensive customization and flexibility so that we can easily adapt to developments at a strategic company level or in the wider economy."

"Ethernet is becoming the most reliable and cost-effective way to transport and deliver broadband applications and services," said Phil Male, Chief Operating Officer of THUS Plc. "It has only been four months since the launch of National Ethernet and we are already seeing significant demand for point-to-point Ethernet services. We expect 2003 to be the year when demand for Ethernet really takes off and we believe that the Cisco Powered Network designation will clearly mark THUS out as the supplier of choice for UK businesses."

THUS also announced today that it has selected Omnetica, one of Europe's leading system integrators, to support the marketing and delivery of City and National Ethernet to enterprises. Omnetica will work with THUS on the sales-driven expansion of THUS's Cisco-based Ethernet network, in addition to helping market Ethernet services to its blue chip customer base.

National Ethernet addresses an ever-increasing need for all the services available on a company's LAN to be quickly and easily accessible to all employees of a company, regardless of their location. This demand has accelerated as companies look towards storage area networks and disaster recovery providers to host mission critical data and as the workforce becomes increasingly mobile.

Ethernet already powers most company LANs, but for the majority of companies when traffic enters the leased line Wide Area Network (WAN) to travel to another office, it can slow to less than 10% of the LAN speed. National Ethernet removes this bandwidth bottleneck and opens the door to improved performance, greater usability in comparison to traditional data services and new ways of working whilst at the same time simplifying the overall network architecture that a company has to manage.

The Cisco Powered Network program was developed as a way for service providers to reinforce the quality and security of their end-to-end networks and differentiate the value of their service offerings.

THUS, Cisco and Omnetica are hosting a Metro Ethernet Networking Forum seminar on 26th June 2003 in London. For more information, the agenda and to register, please visit http://www.cisco.com/seminars, and use registration code S2109.