Sunrise and T-Systems set up worldwide alliance for IP-VPN

Sunrise and T-Systems have agreed to a global alliance with the aim of better serving multinational companies operating in Switzerland. In the future, Sunrise and T-Systems customers will be able to get their entire national and international communications requirements fulfilled by a single provider. 

Sunrise and T-Systems decided to intensify their current business relationship in order to provide one stop shopping for business customers with strong international ties. The new alliance will supply seamless international integration of the Sunrise network. This is made possible by T-Systems’ own backbone in over 50 countries as well as its MPLS* connections to a total of 140 countries.

Many SMEs and large companies have selected Sunrise on the basis of its high quality yet cost effective services. Now these customers can easily extend their secure data and telephony connections worldwide using the latest internet protocol (IP) enabled data networks of both ICT service-providers. The new alliance with T-Systems will allow Sunrise to offer worldwide the same high quality services that they are offering within Switzerland. At the same time T-Systems customers will benefit from the strong Swiss network of Sunrise, which comprises over 9000 km of optical fibre backbone.

Sunrise and T-Systems have a successful history of working together to deliver demanding customer projects, but this is the first time they have agreed to interconnect their networks in order to simplify the end-to-end service delivery and support.

René Fischer (COO Sunrise Business Customers) commented: "More than 50% of Swiss companies are involved in business activities outside of Switzerland. For them, the ability to obtain a global telecommunications solution from one hand is more important than ever. In T-Systems we have found a partner with a deserved reputation for delivering solid, reliable and high quality solutions based on a worldwide network. Together we are able to meet even the most demanding needs of our customers and deliver them in a simple and integrated way".

René Mulder (Chief Sales & Services Officer T-Systems Switzerland) added: “The connection between the Swiss Sunrise network and the global T-Systems network allows us to offer seamless ICT solutions to the Swiss market. With Sunrise we share not only a successful cooperation but also the same understanding for high quality, service and performance”.

* MPLS = Multi Protocol Label Switching

* IP-VPN = Virtual Private Network via Internet Protocol: allows a secure wide area network connection

About Sunrise

Sunrise is the second largest telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Over 2.3 million customers use services from Sunrise in the areas of mobile telephony, fixed network and Internet. The mobile network, based on GSM, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA technologies, provides over 99% of the population with state-of-the-art mobile network services and allows transfer rates of up to 3.6 Mbps. A high-performance fibre optic network, with a total length of over 9,000 km, enables high-quality voice and data services to be offered throughout the country.  By 2009 Sunrise will be serving 80% of all households with its own broadband services. Sunrise is a brand of Sunrise Communications AG, whose share capital is 100% owned by TDC A/S.

About T-Systems

With a global infrastructure of computer centers and networks, T-Systems operates information and communications technology (ICT) for multinational corporations and public institutions. On this basis, Deutsche Telekom’s corporate-customer unit offers integrated solutions for the connected future of business and society. Some 46,000 employees combine industry expertise and ICT innovations to add noticeable value to their customers’ core business all over the world. T-Systems generated revenue of around EUR 12 billion in the 2007 financial year. In Switzerland, T-Systems has over 900 employees and is represented at sites nationwide in addition to its head office in Zollikofen.

Contacts:

T-Systems Schweiz AG
Senta Kleger
PR Manager
Industriestrasse 21
3052 Zollikofen
Telefon: +41 (0)31 915 42 55
Telefax: +41 (0)31 915 42 45
E-Mail: senta.kleger@t-systems.ch
Internet: www.t-systems.ch