The `gift of life` depends on reliability

Issued by Stone Soup for Internet Solutions

Johannesburg, 08 Jul 2004

Internet Solutions (IS) has won a five-year contract to supply the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) with an MPLS VPN (virtual private network). Pricing and reliability were the customer`s primary pain points, as well as scalability for future growth. In addition, while SANBS were looking to an MPLS type environment only in the future, IS was able to not only bring this solution in on budget, but show the stability and benefits of the technology for immediate use.

The initial IS proposal is for a 92-site MPLS VPN. Future additional services such as hosting in the IS IDC, provision of Citrix across the backbone, GPRS and mobility, and detailed security systems have been allowed for in a fully scalable and regionalised solution.

The project is already under way and will be staged to include the majority of the provinces by last calendar quarter 2004.

MPLS VPN from IS

The MPLS VPN solution from IS allows for traffic to be differentiated according to class-of-service parameters over the backbone. The three classes of service are referred to as Platinum, Gold and Silver, and each comes with a set of service level agreements based on latency, availability, packet loss and jitter.

The MPLS solution ensures that business-critical traffic is unaffected by other traffic types and simultaneously maintains cost-efficiency by allowing customers to utilise lower, less expensive classes-of-service where appropriate.

Live statistics specific to each customer`s MPLS VPN are available online through the IS Customer Zone.

Internet Solutions

Internet Solutions (IS) has transformed its business model and become the only full network service provider in the country.

The business was founded on the principle of developing a robust infrastructure in order for corporates to conduct e-business. Over the past decade IS has established itself as a leader in this space, attracting over 80% of SA`s top businesses as clients.

During its 10-year life span IS has evolved and grown its service offerings. Today, the company is the leading hosting service provider and security service provider in SA, as well as having significant market share in the virtual private network (VPN) and application service provider (ASP) space.

Internet Solutions has earned an impressive collection of accolades, including eight First National Bank "Most Admired" awards, Financial Mail Best Company to Work For and a place in the Top Unlisted Company Awards.

The company partners with major players such as Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, BT and AT&T, and in 2002 was certified as a Cisco Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), the first and only company outside of the US to be awarded this accolade.

For more, visit us on www.is.co.za.

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