Bangkok--4 Dec--Weber Shandwick
Centrally Managed Network Supports Communications-Enabled Applications
Malaysia Airlines, one of Asia’s premier international carriers, which is in the midst of a major business transformation plan to support its vision of becoming a Five Star Value Carrier by 2012, has invested in a new communications solution from Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT].
A significant component of this transformation is the upgrading of the legacy IT network infrastructure at Malaysia Airlines to enable and support strategic and critical airline business activity.
“Airlines operate in one of the world’s most competitive industries, and our ability to differentiate ourselves depends on being able to provide a cost-effective, reliable infrastructure which is aligned with Malaysia Airlines business aspirations,” said Faridah Abdul Rahman, CIO/GM Group IT of Malaysia Airlines. “Nortel’s converged enterprise network solutions stood out from the crowd, providing a secure, future-proof and agile infrastructure that will support our ongoing business transformation through 2012 and beyond. Backed by a comprehensive network management system, we can ensure effective support and enablement of critical airline operations and planned key strategic business activities” he continued.
“Malaysia Airlines is a massive, complex organization whose highly dispersed employees — operating globally on a 24x7 basis — must have the utmost confidence in their communication network,” said James Demers, vice president, ASEAN and Pakistan, Nortel. “Communication-enabled applications are a key opportunity presented by Hyperconnectivity, and Nortel’s switching platform optimizes it by intelligently prioritizing real-time business communications like voice, video and multimedia services. With lower power consumption, a consolidated management platform and a cost-per-gigabit five times less than that of the competition, the Nortel solution will help Malaysia Airlines achieve its Five Star Value Carrier objectives.”
Malaysia Airlines’ new enterprise communications infrastructure is built around Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 (ERS 8600), a resilient terabit-class enterprise switch that scales to 384 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Also implemented were the Nortel ERS 8300 and ERS 4500. All are managed by the Nortel Enterprise Network Management System, which offers a single management system for wired and wireless, voice and data converged networks.
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel’s technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
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