June 20, 2001 - BT Industries AB, the world's leading manufacturer of warehouse trucks, has successfully implemented a Nokia Virtual Private Network (VPN) to help their offices and mobile employees securely access its corporate network over the Internet.
BT Industries is a global company with 8000 employees and six manufacturing plants in Europe and North America. They offer a complete range of material handling equipment from hand pallet trucks to advanced counterbalance trucks. The company also provides its customers with an extensive service organization, operating 24 hours a day. These activities call for powerful communications between offices, where the Nokia VPN is a vital component supporting hundreds of users.
"We chose Nokia because they were able to meet our requirements for a cost-effective VPN with high performance," says Peter Lindqvist, Technology Manager at the IS/IT department of BT Industries.
"Another aspect that attracted us to Nokia was that the solution seemed easy to deploy, and so far we have not been disappointed. At the moment we have VPN installations running in several locations in Canada, Eastern Europe and Australia," Mr. Lindqvist continues.
Nokia has supplied BT Industries with a VPN solution including the Nokia CC2500 and Nokia CC500 gateways. Enabled by patented IP clustering, these standards-based platforms eliminate any single point of VPN failure by providing active session failover and dynamic load balancing when used in the multi-unit clustered configuration.
"The Nokia VPN solution provides today's information intensive organizations with high performance and high availability connectivity for mission critical communications," says Ernie Jones, vice president of sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nokia Internet Communications. "Nokia is delighted to supply BT Industries with a scalable solution to extend their corporate network via secure site-to-site connections as well as mobile workers, business partners and suppliers, to enable increased productivity and a substantial saving over traditional leased line connections."
Nokia is committed to delivering the highest of standards in security, reliability, performance and confidence for its customers needs. Nokia's award-winning (1 VPN solutions are purpose-built platforms, designed to ensure secure connectivity across intranets, extranets, or for remote users. All appliances are fully backed by Nokia's global support "First Call-Final Resolution".
The BT Industries deployment was undertaken by Cygate, one of Nokia Internet Communications' value added resellers in Sweden.
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About BT Industries AB
BT Industries AB is a leading supplier of warehouse trucks with +20% world market share. The company offers a global warehouse truck range of European and North American standard, plus a full range of services incl. Rental. Operations are based on three geographic business areas: BT EUROPE, BT RAYMOND and BT INTERNATIONAL. The company has 8000 employees and manufacturing in six locations: Mjölby (Sweden), Bologna (Italy), Greene and Muscatine (USA), and Brantford and Toronto (Canada). BT Industries is a member of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works Ltd. of Japan.
About Nokia
Nokia is the world leader in mobile communications. Backed by its experience, innovation, user-friendliness and secure solutions, the company has become the leading supplier of mobile phones and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks. By adding mobility to the Internet, Nokia creates new opportunities for companies and further enriches the daily lives of people. Nokia is a broadly held company with listings on six major exchanges.
About Nokia Internet Communications
Nokia Internet Communications, headquartered in Mountain View, CA, provides world-class Network Security, Virtual Private Network, Network Acceleration and Wireless Software solutions that ensure the security and reliability of corporate enterprise and managed service provider networks. Nokia is committed to enhancing the end user experience by bringing a new level of security and reliability to the network, enabling an Internet transaction that is personal and trusted -- each and every time. For more information, please visit www.nokia.com and click on Secure Network Solutions.
Further information:
BT Industries, PR Department, Tel. +46 142 860 00 and +46 70 555 92 88
Nokia Internet Communications Europe, Middle East & Africa
Tel. +358 40 830 1108 and +44 7788 145460
www.nokia.com