BNP Paribas Joins Forces With Orange Business Services to Deploy SD-WAN for 1,800 Retail Sites in France
January 13 2021 - 8:06AM
Business Wire
- Co-construction approach ensures business continuity during
deployment
BNP Paribas has chosen Orange Business Services to deploy an
SD-WAN solution in more than 1,800 bank branches across France.
Focused on developing and integrating new digital solutions, BNP
Paribas continues to provide the highest standards to improve user
experience for customers and employees alike.
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Orange Business Services deploys SD-WAN
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By integrating Flexible SD-WAN from Orange Business Services,
BNP Paribas benefits from a modern and agile technological platform
to accelerate its digital transformation. This enables quick and
easy deployment of multiple services, such as dynamic routing and
path selection, with scalability and flexibility. It also empowers
administrators to monitor infrastructure performance and resolve
potential network congestion through simple software modifications,
thereby optimizing application performance. By deploying SD-WAN,
BNP Paribas can take advantage of a fully secure hybrid network
that is natively multi-cloud, multi-access and multi-application.
The Bank will also benefit from optimized and centralized
management and intelligent routing for its new infrastructure.
Close collaboration between business and IT for greater
agility
From the start of the project, experts from Orange Business
Services and BNP Paribas built the solution design together and
prioritized the features to be deployed. More than 3,600 access
lines—two per branch, including one Internet access line – are
currently being rolled out with a focus on maintaining business
continuity for each site during the migration. In addition to the
SD-WAN overlay, firewalls for enhanced security are also part of
this deployment.
"It was paramount for us to choose a partner who already had
proven experience implementing and operating SD-WAN solutions.
Orange Business Services stood out as this trusted partner. In
addition to their IT expertise, the Orange teams demonstrated a
great ability to understand our business challenges, and they knew
what needed to be done to support our end-to-end digital
transformation. This close collaboration between our teams from the
very beginning of the project was one of the keys to its success
and to a smooth roll out," said Bernard Gavgani, Chief Information
Officer at BNP Paribas Group.
"We are delighted to support BNP Paribas in their transformation
program and deploy the first large-scale SD-WAN project in the
retail banking industry for the French market. An indepth
understanding of our customers' business needs is essential to
co-develop customized and innovative solutions. Orange Business
Services will continue to accompany BNP Paribas’ central and local
teams to learn and develop their SD-WAN skills," said Nadine
Foulon-Belkacémi, Executive Vice President, French Major Clients at
Orange Business Services.
About BNP Paribas BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe
with an international reach. It has a presence in 71 countries,
with approximately 199,000 employees, of which more than 151,000 in
Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities:
Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose
retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by
Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional
Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and
institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients
(individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs,
corporates and institutional clients) to realise their projects
through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and
protection insurance.
In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France,
Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is the
European leader in consumer lending.
BNP Paribas is rolling out its integrated retail-banking model
in Mediterranean countries, in Turkey, in Eastern Europe and a
large network in the western part of the United States. In its
Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial
Services activities, BNP Paribas also enjoys top positions in
Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and
fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.
About Orange Business Services Orange Business Services
is a network-native digital services company and the global
enterprise division of the Orange Group. It connects, protects and
innovates for enterprises around the world to support sustainable
business growth. Leveraging its connectivity and system integration
expertise throughout the digital value chain, Orange Business
Services is well placed to support global businesses in areas such
as software-defined networks, multi-cloud services, Data and AI,
smart mobility services, and cybersecurity. It securely accompanies
enterprises across every stage of the data lifecycle end-to-end,
from collection, transport, storage and processing to analysis and
sharing.
With companies thriving on innovation, Orange Business Services
places its customers at the heart of an open collaborative
ecosystem. This includes its 27,000 employees, the assets and
expertise of the Orange Group, its technology and business
partners, and a pool of finely selected start-ups. More than 3,000
multinational enterprises, as well as two million professionals,
companies and local communities in France, put their trust in
Orange Business Services.
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operators with revenues of 42 billion euros in 2019 and 257 million
customers worldwide at 30 September 2020. Orange is listed on the
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Press contacts: Arnaud Fraboul, BNP Paribas,
arnaud.fraboul@bnpparibas.com, +33 7 85 16 09 20 Elizabeth Mayeri,
Orange Business Services, elizabeth.mayeri@orange.com, +1 212 251
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