26 April 2019

Engineering and infrastructure advisory giant Aurecon has chosen Orange Business Services (Orange) to manage its global communications infrastructure, including SD-WAN and cybersecurity services, as part of a USD25m five-year network transformation agreement.

The French telecom giant said the deal will affect 60 sites across more than twenty countries, including African nations such as Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa.

It is based on the provision of Orange’s SD-WAN service, which the carrier described as a fully managed end-to-end solution that will provide a four-fold increase in agile network capacity.

“This increased capacity is critical for worldwide collaboration, cloud-based CAD software and work-sharing,” Orange said in a statement. “It will offer more visibility and flexibility to grow and evolve across its business operations. The scalable, cloudbased security services from Orange will enable Aurecon and its partners to work securely from any location, while securing its cloudbased business applications.”

Orange entered into partnership with Aurecon in 2014, when it redesigned, consolidated and managed the latter’s network infrastructure and deployed a highspeed global WAN, connecting sites across Africa and other parts of the world. Aurecon is based in Australia and South Africa.