OREANDA-NEWS. Deutsche Telekom is expanding its international portfolio for corporate customers. T-Systems has signed a partnership agreement with Akamai, the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, to extend and enhance its business IP-VPN service for multinational companies. In February, Deutsche Telekom bundled its corporate telecommunications business into a new unit and by doing so, is striving to become the number one Network Service Provider (NSP) for business customers in Europe.

Patrick Molck-Ude, who is responsible for network business for Deutsche Telekom's corporate customers, says, "We want to continue growing with corporate customers, and coming from our position as number one in Germany, we want to advance our position in the European market and internationally with our new portfolio. Selecting Akamai technology for optimized Enterprise Networking over the Internet is part of this strategy."

Willie M. Tejada, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Networking at Akamai continued, “As an increasing number of enterprises look to leverage the Internet as a mission critical application delivery channel, the performance and reliability challenges become more apparent. This is especially true when branch office employees across the world are accessing applications over the Internet.

The new IP-VPN offering from Deutsche Telekom will utilize Akamai Cloud Networking Internet Optimization capabilities to bolster the performance of Internet IP-VPN traffic for enterprises. Deutsche Telekom has developed a solution that leverages Akamai technology to identify the best performing routes across the Internet to significantly improve the quality of transmission for Enterprise Networks. When a better performing route is identified, data is dynamically diverted in real time. This makes the delivery of Enterprise critical applications over the Internet faster and more stable.

New service especially for branch offices and subsidiaries distributed around the world
With this new portfolio, Deutsche Telekom is targeting corporate customers with large numbers of globally distributed branch offices and subsidiaries that do not have access to connections via high-performance digital networks for voice and data (MPLS, Multiprotocol Label Switching) and that want to use Internet infrastructure. Intercontinental, long-distance connections pose a particular challenge for corporate networks. The new solution provides customers in addition to MPLS with a better performing connection for Enterprise locations over the Internet.

Deutsche Telekom will provide the new service as of beginning of 2016. Customers with existing IP-VPN contracts can book the service as an addition to their contract. The portfolio is available internationally. Costs vary depending on scope and region. 

About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2014). The Group provides fixed network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 62.7 billion in the 2014 financial year – more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.

About T-Systems
Deutsche Telekom considers the European business customer segment a strategic growth area. Deutsche Telekom offers small, medium-sized and multinational companies ICT solutions for an increasingly complex digital world. In addition to services from the cloud, the range of services is centered around M2M and security solutions, complementary mobile communications and fixed network products, and solutions for virtual collaboration and IT platforms, all of which forms the basis for our customers' digital business models.
With approximately 47,800 employees worldwide, T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 8,6 billion in the 2014 financial year.Deutsche Telekom is one of the world's leading integrated telecommunications companies with around 151 million mobile customers, 30 million fixed-network lines and more than 17 million broadband lines (as of December 31, 2014). The Group provides fixed-network, mobile communications, Internet and IPTV products and services for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in more than 50 countries and has approximately 228,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of 62.7 billion euros in the 2014 financial year – more than 60 percent of it outside Germany.

About Akamai
As the global leader in Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, Akamai makes the Internet fast, reliable and secure for its customers. The company's advanced web performance, mobile performance, cloud security and media delivery solutions are revolutionizing how businesses optimize consumer, enterprise and entertainment experiences for any device, anywhere.