KPN Picks Cisco Routers

AMSTERDAM -- Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, announced that it is supplying MPLS VPN solutions to leading Netherlands-based service provider, KPN. The MPLS VPN, a Cisco Powered Network service, will help KPN provide a flexible, always-on broadband access service for Dutch enterprises. The Cisco 10000 series Internet Routers will aggregate a range of broadband access technologies from leased lines and DSL through to dial up and GPRS.Under the name Epacity, KPN gradually launches the IP-VPN services with MPLS technology that help provide enterprises and application and internet service providers with a secure, reliable, flexible and high standard of connectivity. Epacity is also integrated with KPMG Consulting, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:KCIN) Configure to Fit® (CTF) Business Support Systems/Operations Support System (BSS/OSS) Architecture concept, customized for KPN's selected applications and specific business processes to provide web enabled, end-to-end flow-through order to provisioning IP-VPN solutions. KPN already offers the Epacity service to xSP customers."Cisco's MPLS technology solves the scalability and manageability problem of multiple, large-scale IP-VPNs and helps provide us with the ability to offer broadband services to our customers complete with Quality of Service characteristics", said Huub Zabel, manager, Epacity Solutions at KPN. "Cisco's understanding of enterprise requirements as well as its leadership in IP solutions has been fundamental to the success of our relationship."KPN TelecomCisco Systems Inc.