Beacon Solutions Announces $20 Million Global IP Telecom Engagement
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb 17, 2010—Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group, Inc., an emerging global leader in the design, implementation and management of high performance Information Technology Systems ("ITS") infrastructure solutions, announces a multi-year global IP telecom engagement with one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies valued at approximately $20 million over five years.
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This engagement will cover all of the Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company’s facilities throughout the world, including North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The global enterprise client is migrating their entire system to Voice Over IP (VoIP), and Beacon has been engaged to perform a global LAN / WAN remediation and upgrade, in order to bring each facility up to the standards required to handle the increased demand on the overall network.
“We are pleased to announce our latest engagement with this Fortune 500 pharmaceutical client,” said Bruce Widener, CEO, of Beacon Solutions. “This order represents a sizable project win for our global operations. As we’ve mentioned previously, becoming a preferred ITS solutions partner with our global enterprise clients and servicing their mission critical Layer 1 network infrastructure, opens numerous opportunities for additional collateral work, as evidenced by this multi-year engagement.”
Over the next five years, this engagement requires our engineers and installation teams to be dispatched globally to each client site where they will survey and document the entire existing network in preparation for a Voice Over IP (VoIP) retrofit. The engineering teams will be coordinating with client IT teams and identifying technology gaps in their current network including related environmentals and building systems. These teams will then perform a gap analysis and create a remediation design for any observed technical deficiencies. Beacon’s engineers and project managers will ensure compliance with the design during the implementation phase, while our installation teams will implement any changes or additional infrastructure required. Any additional work would fall under a separate engagement.
“A project of this scope is a perfect fit for Beacon’s global reach and best of breed customer service,” added Rick Mills, President of Beacon Solutions. “Beacon employees are currently stationed within this customer’s facilities and are performing work related to other engagements. We intend to utilize a combination of existing and new personnel resources to fulfill the engagement and believe that there are further opportunities to work with this Fortune 500 client as they continue to assess and upgrade their networks.”
This Fortune 500 client first engaged Beacon Solutions in 2008, and now uses Beacon’s ITS infrastructure provisioning expertise to assist with the management and integration of its vast network of primary facilities and remote sites around the world. This latest order relates to additional system assessments, above and beyond the previously announced North America and EMEA contracts, which encompass the day-to-day ITS provisioning, maintenance and service.
Headquartered in New Jersey, this Fortune 500 customer is a global research driven pharmaceutical company. The customer discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs.
About Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group, Inc.
Beacon Enterprise Solutions Group is an emerging global leader in the design, implementation and management of high performance Information Technology Systems ("ITS") infrastructure solutions. Beacon offers fully integrated, turnkey IT infrastructure solutions capable of fully servicing the largest companies in the world as they increasingly outsource to reduce costs while optimizing critical IT design and infrastructure management. Through an integrated team approach, Beacon offers a broad range of products and services including IT infrastructure design, implementation and management, application development and voice/data/security system integration, installation and maintenance. Beacon’s client roster includes state and local agencies, educational institutions, and over 4,000 companies ranging in size from mid-sized companies to the Fortune 500. Beacon is headquartered in Louisville, Ky., with regional headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and Zurich, Switzerland and personnel located throughout the United States and Europe.
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