Compaq Launches Strategic Next Generation Network Consulting and Integration Services Initiative
Business Wire - February 16, 1999 09:21
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999-- Taps its global integration experience and strategic partnerships to help customers achieve competitive advantage through adaptive
network infrastructures
Editor's Summary:
-- Compaq addresses multi-billion dollar market for next generation
network consulting and integration services that is fueled by
customers' need to innovate in a networked business world.
-- Initiative is a cornerstone of Compaq's vision for mainstream,
uninterrupted computing in a global business ecosystem.
-- New service offerings provide rapid time-to-implementation of
best-of-class networking solutions based on Compaq's worldwide
experience, expertise and key industry partnerships.
Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ) today announced a major services initiative to help enterprise customers rapidly transform their existing networks into adaptive, next generation networks necessary for competing and thriving in a global, Internet-driven business world. Customers require next generation networks to simplify and enable the implementation of new, bandwidth-intensive Internet applications such as video conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, voice over IP, distance learning, e-commerce and e-tainment. Compaq's new IT services for planning, architecting, piloting and managing next generation networks build on 25 years of network design, integration and management experience. In addition, Compaq is working with new and existing industry-leading partners in the networking and telecom segments to meet customers' specific solution requirements.
Compaq's next generation network initiative is a cornerstone supporting the company's broader vision of the Internet-connected enterprise, in which companies of all types and sizes conduct uninterrupted commerce in a constantly changing global online business ecosystem. For many enterprises, an obsolete network infrastructure is the greatest impediment to implementing the latest technologies. Compaq's new IT services are designed to reduce the uncertainty spurred by rapid technological developments, and help enterprises plan, design and deploy IT infrastructures that meet the speed, bandwidth and adaptability requirements of Internet applications.
"The integration of the online business ecosystem is a complex undertaking that virtually every business will experience," said Eckhard Pfeiffer, President and CEO of Compaq Computer Corp. "The network integration capabilities we are announcing today demonstrate our commitment to being a trusted advisor helping enterprise customers worldwide through these dramatic shifts - by adapting their network infrastructures to thrive in an Internet-driven world."
Leveraging Partnerships and 25 Years of Experience
"The network is the heart of the new enterprise," said John Rando, Senior Vice President and Group General Manager, Compaq Services. "Our experience and industry partnerships place Compaq in a unique position within the IT market, and give customers unprecedented choice and confidence in the architecture and deployment of their network computing infrastructures. Our customers can capitalize on our experience and expertise as we help them rapidly transform and integrate new business processes while protecting their current and future IT investments."
In addition to building on its own broad experience in Internet, intranet, and extranet products and IT services, Compaq will broaden its portfolio of industry-leading partnerships to provide customers greater choice and faster time to specific solutions. Compaq's newest service partnerships include BMC Software, Entrust Technologies, NetScout Systems, Nortel Networks, PictureTel Corporation and Tivoli Systems. They join existing service partners Ascend Communications, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Cisco Systems, Inc., Computer Associates International, Inc., Ericsson, Frontier Communications, Genesys Group, Kenan Systems Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, and VocalTec Communications Ltd.
Most recently, Compaq has demonstrated its network integration leadership in projects for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, State of New Hampshire Liquor Commission, Frontier Communications, State of California, and the United States Postal Service.
SAS (Servicio Andaluz de la Salud), the public healthcare organization of southern Spain, expects to dramatically improve patient care with a next generation network linking 30,000 users in 32 hospitals, including 7,000 doctors and nurses, as well as 3,000 trainee healthcare professionals in 52 healthcare districts, 48 special auxiliary centers, and eight administrative centers across Andalucia.
According to Jose Antonio Cobena, CIO and COO of SAS, "Our intranet, as designed by Compaq Services, will be one of the largest in Europe, dramatically improving the quality of services we can offer the eight million citizens of Southern Spain. We selected Compaq because we have confidence in their experience, their creativity in defining added value applications, the quality and skills of their people, and their ability to get this project done quickly and with the high quality level that our internal and external users require."
Three Waves of New Next Generation Services to be Introduced this Year
Compaq's innovative consulting and integration services are designed to help customers transform their network architectures to enable rapid, secure and flexible deployment of Internet applications. More specifically, Compaq and its partners will focus on the four layers of network architecture that are most critical to achieving those objectives: Internet network services; network transport; management; and security. Available immediately worldwide for enterprise customers, the new services include:
-- Next Generation Networks CIO Workshop; -- Next Generation Network Audit, Baselining and Assessment Services; -- Directory Enabled Networks; -- Planning and Implementation Services for Microsoft Site Server -- Unified Messaging; -- Voice over IP Pilot Service; -- Video Conferencing and Collaboration Solutions.
Compaq also offers FutureSourcing(sm) services to develop, deploy, and manage next generation networks on a custom basis, including end-to-end Internet infrastructure management, security management, e-commerce management, and application management.
Complementing these services is Compaq's complete portfolio of high availability services designed to ensure the uninterrupted availability of an organization's business-critical computing environment. Compaq's unique, proactive and holistic approach to high availability involves a partnership and shared risk with the customer.
The service offerings announced today will be followed by two additional waves of new next generation network infrastructure service offerings later this year. Compaq will add to its services for public network and telecom service providers, and will introduce next generation network services designed for channel partners to deliver to small and medium-size (SMB) businesses. Additional information on Compaq's next generation networks initiative is available at www.compaq.com/services/ngni.
Exploding Demand for Next Generation Networks
Next generation networks represent the convergence of multiple networks, including voice, data and video into one efficient, reliable IP-based network stretching from the enterprise to the public network to the home. In addition, these adaptive networks reduce network management costs, are more easily scaled, provide a faster path to market and, ultimately, improve communications.
The next ten years will see billions of dollars invested to plan, re-engineer and rebuild today's obsolete enterprise and public networks to handle exploding volumes of data traffic. The Yankee Group(1) estimates that the overall market for network integration services will grow to $52.7 billion in 2001 from $29.6 billion in 1997. When deployed, the new networks will be able to handle traffic volumes projected by McQuillan Consulting(2) to increase from 25 percent of all network traffic today to more than 95 percent in 2003.
Company Background
Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation is a Fortune Global 100 company. Compaq is the second largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. Compaq develops and markets hardware, software, solutions, and services, including industry-leading enterprise computing solutions, fault-tolerant business-critical solutions, networking and communication products, commercial desktop and portable products and consumer PCs. The company is an industry leader in environmentally friendly programs and business practices.
Compaq products are sold and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of authorized Compaq marketing partners. Customer support and information about Compaq and its products are on the World Wide Web at compaq.com and are available by calling 1-800-OK-COMPAQ. Product information and reseller locations are available by calling 1-800-345-1518.
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(1) New York Times, October 5, 1998 (2) Keynote, NGN Conference, December, 1998
CONTACT: Compaq Computer Corp.
Theresa Parenteau, 978-496-9981
theresa.parenteau@compaq.com
or
Compaq Computer Corp.
Tom Madden, 978-496-8483
tom.madden@compaq.com
or
Shandwick International
John Comando, 617-266-8400
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