BT has been named as the winner of Frost & Sullivan’s Service Provider of 2005 Award for Innovative Products & Services in the Asia Pacific region. The award recognises BT’s work building next-generation IP networks in Asia-Pacific and highlights the resilience and flexibility of the BT network infrastructure, as well as related services such as BT’s Applications Assured Infrastructure.
The award is listed Frost & Sullivan’s report, A strategic analysis of the Asia-Pacific International Data Services Market, 2005, which examines the competitive position of major international providers serving Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Frost & Sullivan considered the service portfolio, network coverage, financial stability, pricing strategy and other competencies in its analysis.
The analyst group said:
- “BT’s presence in the Asia Pacific region, dating back to 1985, is through BT Global Services. However, the company began rebuilding its network in Asia Pacific since 2003. Today, with its upgraded network, BT serves 32 cities and 14 countries across the region.
- BT’s most extensive network roll-out in the Asia Pacific region during 2004 established a network that is more resilient, more efficient, and more widely available than anything BT has been able to offer before. It supports VPN, internet, voice, mobility and private line services.
- In Asia Pacific, BT has designed and deployed a next generation network providing the shortest possible path between Asia and the rest of the world. This route boasts having the highest available resilience possible to help deliver application performance. Running over this network is an IP-VPN (based upon 6 CoS MPLS) which is designed to prioritise application delivery.
- BT’s Application Assured Infrastructure (AAI) is an unique approach to delivering IP infrastructure and related application services which optimize performance of customer’s key applications. AAI, a combination of network managed services, intelligent monitoring technology and people consultancy skills, through greater understanding of the interrelationships between infrastructure elements – network, application, data centre and desktop, makes sure that customer’s business critical applications will perform in a predictable, consistent way. So predictable and consistent that BT AAI provides SLAs based on the applications' performance and not the infrastructure.”
