Orange Business Services Announces IPVPN Protected

Business Wire, Oct 15, 2007

Integrated, Cost-Effective Managed Security Service Secures Branch and Remote Offices

PARIS -- Orange Business Services announces the worldwide availability of IPVPN Protected. Branch and remote offices can be secured using IPVPN Protected, a new managed security offer integrated in the Cisco Integrated Service Router and encompassing a firewall and intrusion prevention system.

In today's business environment, companies routinely need to open their corporate networks to external users, mobile employees, distributed workforces, customers and business partners. With this flexibility comes the need for an appropriate level of security. Employees today do not have a clear separation of work and life. They tend to mix personal and work time; sometimes working at home at other times doing personal computing at work. This way of working creates new network security challenges that IPVPN Protected solves. Additionally, regulations - such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA or Basel II - result in more traceability and data exchange increases in volume and criticality (USB, peer-to-peer).

IPVPN Protected provides customers four key benefits:

effective security: IPVPN Protected embeds effective security capabilities such as a bi-directional zone-based Firewall and an intrusion prevention system (IPS) to protect against internal and external threats,

low costs: to address the volume associated to branch and remote sites, we propose an affordable security solution with a pricing structure based simply on installation fees plus monthly recurring charges,

integrated simplicity: the firewall and intrusion prevention options rely on the Cisco Integrated Service Router IOS functionalities and do not require deployment of additional equipment or need customer resources. This security is then integrated into our managed network services including IP VPN, Internet Direct and Small Office Services and inherits the SLAs selected by the customer. The service reacts automatically in case of attack, working as long as the router is on. The security policy, or filtering rules, can be customized as specifically as needed to meet the customer unique needs for each site or can be defined globally,

managed service: Orange Business Services manages IPVPN Protected, delivering, maintaining and supporting the firewall and intrusion prevention options. For the firewall, the customer defines its security policy through flexible and adaptable filtering rules that can be defined globally or per site. The intrusion prevention mechanism inspects the incoming and outgoing traffic and then blocks any traffic matching one of the loaded attack signatures such as a virus downloaded on a remote computer that is trying to enter the intranet.

About Orange

Orange is the key brand of France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators with more than 161 million customers on five continents.

In June 2006, as part of the France Telecom integrated operator strategy (NExT program) to deliver simple, convergent products, Orange became the single brand for mobile, Internet and TV offers in France, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and in Spain, strengthening Orange's position as the number two mobile and Internet services brand in Europe. In addition, Orange Business Services, which operates in 220 countries or territories, became the new banner for business communications solutions and services.

France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris Eurolist market and on the New York Stock Exchange. At March 31, 2007, the group had more than 100 million mobile customers, about 12.5 million Internet customers and 48.5 million fixed line customers.

In 2006, France Telecom had consolidated sales of 51.7 billion euros.

Further information about Orange and France Telecom can be found on the Orange Web site at www.orange.com, www.orange-business.com or the France Telecom at www.francetelecom.com.

Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited.

Editor's Note

Orange Business Services has 12 years of network experience and more than 200 security experts worldwide, including sales, Professional Services and pre-sales specialists as well as Engineering, Operations or Product Management professionals. Our installed base encompasses nearly 5,000 managed security device and 900,000 authentication users.

IPVPN Protected completes our current security portfolio. For central and critical sites, Orange Business Services proposes:

* Secure Gateway: Through the deployment of an additional appliance, this centralized and fully managed security offer includes three options: Managed Firewall, Managed Anti-Virus, and Managed Employee Access. It is managed 24x7 by dedicated teams.

* Unified Defense: Through the deployment of an additional appliance, this distributed and fully managed security offer includes as standard a Managed Firewall and Managed Anti-Virus plus options such as URL Filtering, IDS/IPS, High Availability, Managed User Authentication. It is managed 24x7 by dedicated teams.