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[April 2002]
Nokia Chosen by Leading Ceramics Company to Protect its Global Corporate Network
Royal Scandinavia, one of the world's leading art industry groups, has successfully deployed Nokia's IP network security appliances to protect its global network.Established in 1775, Royal Scandinavia's stable of brands includes Royal Copenhagen (porcelain), Boda Nova (stoneware and functional design), Orrefors (art glass), Kosta Boda (art glass) and Georg Jensen (gold and silver jewellery). The company has its headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark with production facilities in Denmark and Sweden and sales offices around the globe, with points of reference in all the major countries.
With a rapidly expanding global network, Royal Scandinavia came to the conclusion that it needed to deploy a virtual private network (VPN) to secure its valuable production, sales and marketing data and to ensure safe access to those where necessary.
Flemming Bach, Royal Scandinavia's IT Manager, said: "For us, it's all about uptime as we continue to expand our WAN and fully roll out production and supply chain applications to new users in the group. We can't afford to allow our network to go down at all, and the security solutions offered by Nokia through reseller Ezenta give us peace of mind.
"We hadn't previously adopted a combined VPN solution, although we had conducted trials using rivals but they simply didn't work in the way we needed them to. The solutions from Nokia are not only very secure, they are also very flexible and scalable to work with."
Royal Scandinavia has protected its centralised VPN hub at its main Copenhagen IT site using two high performance fault-tolerant IP650 IP network security appliances from Nokia, which combine the FireWall-1 and VPN-1 software from Check Point Software Technologies. This security system protects a 34Mb fibre Internet connection pipe and a 4Mb back-up connection.
The company estimates that around a third of its 3,500 staff will be taking advantage of the new VPN, created with a particular emphasis on sales and production knowledge management.
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