Nokia Secures Orix's Network

DUBLIN -- ORIX Ireland Limited, owned by its parent company ORIXCorporation, Japan's leading diversified financial services provider, hassuccessfully deployed Nokia's virtual private network (VPN) and IP networksecurity solutions as a critical element of their network infrastructure.With the deployment, ORIX ensures secure communications between the headoffice in Dublin, subsidiaries and mobile employees.The solution for ORIX integrates market leading firewall and VPN technologyfrom Check Point with purpose built, pre-configured and pre-tested platformsfrom Nokia for a fully integrated and powerful VPN solution. The solutionhas given ORIX centralised control and management of their UK subsidiariesout of their Dublin office."Nokia have solved a lot of problems. There are already huge benefits for usin terms of ease of management and deployment," says Dave Fahy, IT ManagerORIX Ireland Limited."Before implementation of this solution, ITrequirements for each office were handled locally, but this was an expensivemethod of managing and securing our infrastructure. The new solution allowsus to decrease total cost of ownership in companies who didn't have local ITsupport and allows us to share applications over a secure network."Nokia Corp.