Kinpo Electronics Improves Communications for 10,000 Employees, Reduces Costs with Nortel Solutions7 June 2005
The new network will enable voice over IP ( VoIP ) and real-time multimedia collaboration applications designed to help Kinpo employees enhance productivity by giving them broadband remote access from outside the office.
The dedicated, converged network now links Kinpo's head office and research and development facility in Taipei with software development centers in Shanghai and Beijing, mass production campus facilities in Dongguan, and manufacturing support operations in Thailand. The network combines separate voice and data functions onto one system, reducing costs and making it possible for employees to access corporate communication services anytime, regardless of location.
"We required a backbone network capable of supporting our long-term operations and guaranteeing reliability, as well as flexibility to handle advanced applications and future services," said Wen-han Hsu, chief information officer, Kinpo Electronics. "Nortel's solution has also enabled our management and staff to make secure voice calls using VoIP to any Kinpo location via our corporate intranet, as well as providing the administrative and supply chain efficiencies that are critical to customers in their assessment and selection of a manufacturer such as Kinpo."
"The ability to lower costs while increasing productivity is fundamental to Nortel's converged networking solutions for today's enterprises and multinational companies," said Jackson Wu, managing director, Taiwan, Nortel. "We are committed to providing customers with intelligent and flexible communication systems that can ignite and power commerce, protect critical business information, and enhance the human experience for their employees."
For Kinpo Electronics' enterprise-wide regional network, Nortel has deployed industry-leading solutions including Ethernet Routing Switch 8600, Ethernet Switch 450, Multiservice Switch 6400, Switched Firewall System and VPN Router 1740.
A reliable, secure and intelligent solution designed to provide increased bandwidth and additional revenue-generating potential for today's application-driven networks, Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8600 delivers high-density, high-performance Layer 2-7 switching, routing and traffic classification. Nortel Ethernet Switch 425 provides high density, low per-port pricing for a scalable and cost-effective desktop switching solution.
Nortel Multiservice Switch ( MSS ) 6400 supports a wide variety of services, including integrated data, voice and video transmissions, as well as traffic transport over public and private networks including leased lines, ATM and Frame Relay. Nortel VPN Router 1740 provides bandwidth management, encryption, authentication, and data integrity for secure connectivity across managed IP networks and the Internet.
A key component in Nortel's layered defense strategy, Nortel Switched Firewall provides both application- and network-level protection. Leveraging Check Point* Firewall-1* technology, the Nortel solution offers ease of management, superior scalability and wire-speed switching performance to proactively safeguard network assets now and into the future.
Nortel ranked #1 in global market share in multiservice switching for 15 consecutive quarters as of year-end 2004, according to Synergy Research Group. With more than 45,000 systems shipped to over 1,500 customer networks, Nortel's Multiservice Switching ( MSS ) family has proven field experience in delivering carrier-grade reliability and service flexibility for mission-critical enterprise and service provider networks worldwide. Nortel's MSS portfolio has also been deployed by more than 25 major wireless operators and is delivering proven reliability for wireless packet networking solutions across GSM/GPRS/UMTS, TDMA and CDMA/CDMA2000* technologies.
About Kinpo Electronics
Kinpo Electronics established itself in Taiwan in 1973 as a leading manufacturer of electronic calculators and now enjoys a 20 percent share of the global electronic calculator market. Building on 32 years of continual growth, Kinpo currently has more than 10,000 employees, facilities in China and Thailand, and has diversified into an extensive portfolio of products that ranges from basic electronic calculators and printers to such Internet-related products as digital cameras, set-top boxes, pocket PCs, cable modems, DSL routers and more. Kinpo is also a valued partner to many well-known business equipment suppliers, including Texas Instruments, HP, Casio, Ricoh, Canon and Olivetti. Further information is available on the Web at www.kinpo.com.tw/English.**
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world's most critical information. Serving both service provider and enterprise customers, Nortel delivers innovative technology solutions encompassing end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband designed to help people solve the world's greatest challenges. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com. For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.
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