Equant is a recognized industry leader in global IP and data services for multinational businesses worldwide. With 9,300 employees in 164 countries, Equant manages more than 152,000 user connections across the world, serving over 3,700 large business customers.

Nortel and Equant have fourteen years of partnership experience and success. This successful partnership has historically been due to Equant being one of Nortel's largest data customers. From a merger with Global One, Equant became part of the France Telecom Group resulting in Equant becoming the world's largest Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch data network. Equant is now the first service provider to gain Nortel System Integrator status and is also unique in offering a managed or unmanaged service offering.

Equant has unmatched global reach with its seamless data network connecting key business centers in 220 countries & territories, with local support in 145 countries. Equant is a true global company. Building on 50 years of experience in data communications, Equant serves approximately 3,700 large business customers - including nearly two-thirds of the world's top 100 companies. Equant meets the diverse needs of global companies with the industry's most extensive and proven portfolio of managed data network services.

Equant has an increasingly varied and wide-ranging portfolio of Managed Services, Hosting and Applications Services and Integration Solutions for their business customers. Much of these offerings are based on Nortel technology. As a Nortel System Integrator Partner, Equant customers can benefit from a single source supplier capable of designing, deploying, managing and supporting true end-to-end global deployments of new high performance LAN, WAN, Optical and IP telephony solutions.

In addition to its deployment, maintenance, network analysis, consulting, project management and fulfillment services, Equant also offers Nortel solutions for:

• a broad portfolio of IP-based end-to-end managed network services
• an extensive set of traditional end-to-end managed data network services
• advanced value-added voice and mobile services, as well as
• innovative application and integration services

Included in Equant's portfolio are the Equant VPN and IPT solutions, which are used by more than 100 businesses and are fully operational in more than 125 countries. Also Equant is the market share leader in international frame relay service, with service in 125 countries, and ATM, which has the industry's widest coverage with service in 55 countries. Supporting its application services, Equant operates 10 global hosting centers.

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