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Vanco Selects VoyenceControl NG To Automate Configuration Lifecycle Management And Ensure Greater Network Manageability

VoyenceControl NG Integration Achieves 94 Percent Savings in System Administration, Human Error and Operational Costs

Richardson, Texas, March 13, 2006 - Voyence, a pioneer in automated change and configuration management solutions, today announced that Vanco, a leading global Virtual Network Operator (VNO), has deployed VoyenceControl NG across its network to service its 200 customers in 230 countries and territories across the globe.

Vanco joins other leading managed service providers who are investing in configuration lifecycle management (design, change and compliance) to meet the growing customer need for demonstrable compliance and audit capabilities. VoyenceControl NG meets and exceeds these needs by automating the entire configuration management lifecycle while making large and complex networks easier to manage.

Upon full deployment of VoyenceControl NG, Vanco quickly realized:

• Improved network efficiency.
• Absolute control over network device configurations.
• Enhanced security via VoyenceControl NG’s ability to instantly alert administrators to configuration changes and problems.
• Full audit capabilities of its entire customer portfolio.
• Ability to demonstrate network compliance to corporate regulatory standards.

John Locke, Vanco’s CTO, elaborates on the importance of VoyenceControl NG’s ability to manage the UK-based VNO’s thousands of network devices:

“Vanco’s continued success depends on our ability to gain visibility into and manage network configurations and changes at hundreds of customer locations. Compounding this, we are 100 percent Service Level Agreement driven, backed by a customer accessible Web portal that gives them full visibility into our service — we cannot hide. VoyenceControl enables us to quickly scale our service to encompass almost any vendor’s device while monitoring and tracking who made what network changes and giving us the ability to instantly roll them back if configured incorrectly.”

TDB Networks, authorities in the provision of performance and configuration management tools, solutions and support are uniquely able to offer the capabilities, through VoyenceControl, mandated by Vanco. TDB Networks is currently working with Vanco to facilitate the additional integration of VoyenceControl with various peripheral systems within Vanco to further stream-line operational efficiency and reduce duplication of effort.

Richard Aurelius, Technical Director of TDB Networks, commented “We have worked closely with the Vanco team for over two years to ensure that VoyenceControl addresses their requirement of increased operational efficiencies, as a result of integration with their OSS infrastructure, while containing costs. The current development project is to extrapolate benefits through automation of operational procedures to enforce best practice engineering standards and consistently high quality of configuration change.”

VoyenceControl NG’s Documented Results - Do The Math
The efficiencies and cost savings for deploying VoyenceControl NG became evident after the company performed a 1,200-site network migration from leased lines to a meshed MPLS network. Executed manually without VoyenceControl NG’s automated procedures, Vanco’s typical time to accomplish the job is 150 “man-days”. With VoyenceControl NG’s automated change and configuration management, Vanco was able to complete the entire migration in a ten “man-day” rollout period – a 94 percent time and resource savings.

“Voyence has significantly reduced our costs during deployments by eliminating the possibility of an engineer entering an incorrect IP addresses or non-compliant data when setting up network devices. VoyenceControl NG absolutely locks down page-by-page, line-by-line every input the engineer can possible make and when it’s complete — it’s 100 percent accurate,” Locke added.

About Vanco Plc
Established in 1988, Vanco plc (FTSE: VAN) is the leading global Virtual Network Operator. With solutions available in 230 countries and territories, Vanco is selected by the world’s largest organizations to provide strategic network solutions. Customers include British Airways, Siemens, IBM/Lloyds TSB, Virgin Retail and Pilkington. Through the Vanco network customers get access to the greatest geographic coverage available through a single provider. Vanco offers incomparable flexibility to customize and adapt the solution in line with market changes and business priorities. Vanco is recognized for its financial success and world class customer service delivery. For more information go to www.vanco.co.uk or contact Harry Pirrwitz, Vanco plc. on +44 (0)20 8636 2942; email: harry.pirrwitz@vanco.co.uk

About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl NG, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl NG is the only configuration and change management solution based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous infrastructure. For more information please visit www.voyence.com.

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