<p>Lonzahas renewed and expanded its network contract with OrangeBusiness Services to include an end-to-end unifiedcommunications and collaboration solution to connect more than11,000 staff around the world.</p><p>Lonza, a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and lifescience industry, has been an Orange Business Services customer for morethan a decade. After a competitive bidding process, Lonza awarded OrangeBusiness Services the contract for four additional years.</p><p>The Orange Business Services network solution connects more than 60sites in 17 countries to the IP VPN, using Ethernet links for the majorlocations and DSL access for small and medium locations. The high-qualitynetwork can carry real-time Telepresence, video and voice trafficensuring best-in-class user experience.</p><p>Ernst Hutter, head of Global IT-Infrastructure Services, Lonza AG, said:"Orange Business Services is providing us a solution that is risk-freein terms of business continuity, allowing us to react quickly tobusiness needs. It is flexible and can easily increase bandwidth,connect locations and support new applications and collaboration needs.Additionally, we are very satisfied with the network services stabilityand performance. The unified communications and collaboration aspect ofthe new contract enables efficient collaboration betweengeographically-dispersed experts, which is particularly important toLonza."</p><p><a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/Lonza-Adds-Unified-Communications-and-Collaboration-Solutions-to-New-Network-Contract-with-Orange-Business-Services-20131216">Keep reading...</a></p>