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Geoservices: Fuelling business growth with a fully managed global network solution
Geoservices: Fuelling business growth with a fully managed global network solution
Challenge
A network transformation project to support voice and data convergence and improve communications with remote teams
Solution
The converged solution uses BT’s global MPLS network with a combination of satellite services and VPN tunnelling over the internet
Value
An enhanced, secure and reliable global network connecting to 50 locations over five continents, with cost savings totalling €500,000 pa
Executive summary
Geoservices is an oil and gas services company, with operations across the globe. Although the company had direct WAN links to its ten largest locations, communication to its smaller sites relied on public services. With an ever-increasing necessity for secure and reliable connectivity the company initiated a network transformation project aimed at improving communications with remote management teams. This global infrastructure would also need the bandwidth to enable the convergence of voice and data and support the rollout of central business and support applications.
A BT converged solution was chosen, which enables secure connectivity to 50 global Geoservices locations in 34 countries across five continents. At the heart of the solution is BT’s global MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) network, with difficult-to-reach locations connected through satellite services or by IPSec VPN (virtual private network) tunnelling over the internet. The fully managed BT service includes the provision of centralised internet access, firewall and security services as well as BT MeetMe voice conferencing. With the core convergent network established BT was able to implement a hosted IP Telephony solution, initially at four locations then extending to 1,000 ports globally, operating over MPLS with Class of Service functionality enabled.
The BT solution provides Geoservices with an enhanced, secure and reliable global network providing converged voice and data connectivity to all its worldwide locations at reduced cost and enabling the implementation of new business-wide applications. Cost savings realised from the deployment of IP Telephony are expected to total €500,000 per annum. That money is being reinvested to increase bandwidth in support of new business and support applications being implemented with the assistance of BT professional services.