France Telecom's ISP, Euronet Selects Informix's Dynamic Server to Manage its Internet Service - Company Business and Marketing

Cambridge Telcom Report, Oct 25, 1999

Euronet, the independent subsidiary of France Telecom, has awarded Informix Software, a contract to build a high availability account management solution for its Wanadoo Internet service. The solution, Informix Dynamic Server running on a clustered Unix server provides a comprehensive, authentication and account administration system for Wanadoo's subscription base.

This new project builds on the existing four-year relationship between France Telecom and Informix. Euronet chose Informix because of Dynamic Server's scalability, reliability and price performance ratio. The technology is designed to grow as the volume of traffic through the provider increases, without a reduction in the quality of service to the end user. It will also identify which services individuals and organisations have pre-paid subscriptions to and manage their access. This includes verification of domain names, email addresses and dial up accounts.

Luc Casterman, Marketing Manager for Wanadoo, commented: "Administration is the hidden side of an ISP but is still very important for the sound running of the company and reliable access of our customer database to the service they pay for. Informix has proven itself with our parent, France Telecom, and it has the reliability and scalability we need."

Steve Glagow, director of Telecommunications Industry Marketing stated: "Informix has a successful track record in supporting the telecommunications industry whatever their requirements. Our customers, such as France Telecom, are market leaders and we aim to help maintain their position by using the most suitable technology."

Informix Corporation, based in Menlo Park, California, provides innovative database solutions that assist the world's major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognised as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database server, application development tools, superior customer service and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including data warehousing, high performance OLTP, and web-commerce. For more information, contact the sales office nearest you or visit our web site at http://www.informix.com.