Equant Hits IP VPN Milestone

WASHINGTON -- Equant (NYSE: ENT) (Euronext Paris: EQU), an industry leader in global data and IP services for multinational businesses, announced that it now has 90 multinational Voice for IP VPN customers with more than 700 global connections.The number of Equant IP VPN customers opting for IP voice capabilities more than doubled in 2002. During the same period, the number of call minutes that customers used increased nearly tenfold. Equant was the first service provider to launch a fully managed, global, converged voice and data service utilizing IP technology.“Customer usage clearly confirms a shift from the early adopter phase to the early majority phase of IP convergence,” said Arjen Maarleveld, Equant’s president of Products.“For more than three years, Equant Voice for IP VPN has been the IP voice service of choice for multinational companies,” Maarleveld said. “By making it easy for businesses to migrate from switched voice VPN services in a cost-effective, controlled, and measured way, Equant is helping multinational corporations compete more effectively.”Equant