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Orange Business Services to increase network capacity by 10 times

Orange Business Services announced that it plans to increase the capacity of its Latin American network by 10 times due to growing demand from its multinational enterprise customers. Implementation is expected to begin in October and will cover Brazil and Chile, followed by Argentina, Peru and Panama. According to the vendor, the upgraded network will accommodate customers’ needs for expanding high-speed broadband services, including MPLS (IP VPN and business VPN), international Ethernet links and video services, such as telepresence.

The new network ring will connect Latin America to the East Coast of the United States via Brazil and to the West Coast of the United States via Chile (through Peru and Panama). The upgrade will enhance the quality of service for customers with improved latency to the West Coast, while also supporting the growing capacity requirements from Asia-Pacific, said the company.

Latin America has been a key growth market for Orange Business Services. As part of the company’s 2015 growth strategy, Orange Business Services aims to generate revenues of €1 billion in emerging markets in 2015.

Orange Business Services has 122 points of presence across 31 countries in Latin America, with more than 650 employees and one of four global Major Service Centers based in Brazil.

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Roberta Prescott
Roberta Prescott
Editor, Americasrprescott@rcrwireless.com Roberta Prescott is responsible for Latin America reporting news and analysis, interviewing key stakeholders. Roberta has worked as an IT and telecommunication journalist since March 2005, when she started as a reporter with InformationWeek Brasil magazine and its website IT Web. In July 2006, Prescott was promoted to be the editor-in-chief, and, beyond the magazine and website, was in charge for all ICT products, such as IT events and CIO awards. In mid-2010, she was promoted to the position of executive editor, with responsibility for all the editorial products and content of IT Mídia. Prescott has worked as a journalist since 1998 and has three journalism prizes. In 2009, she won, along with InformationWeek Brasil team, the press prize 11th Prêmio Imprensa Embratel. In 2008, she won the 7th Unisys Journalism Prize and in 2006 was the editor-in-chief when InformationWeek Brasil won the 20th media award Prêmio Veículos de Comunicação. She graduated in Journalism by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, has done specialization in journalism at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain, 2003) and Master in Journalism at IICS – Universidad de Navarra (Brazil, 2010) and MBA – Executive Education at the Getulio Vargas Foundation.