Bryan Glick, Computing, Tuesday 2 December 2008 at 10:04:00

British Gas owner turns to Cable & Wireless to roll out IP-based infrastructure

Centrica has signed a £79m, five-year contract with Cable & Wireless (C &W) to implement and support a next-generation telecoms infrastructure.

The network will connect 61 sites at the British Gas owner, consolidating existing communications onto the single platform. C&W will provide managed services covering a total of 111 sites.

The move to an IP-based network is designed to streamline Centrica’s existing systems.

In May this year the firm signed an application management and support services deal worth £2.1m with Fujitsu.

Full published article at: http://feeds.computing.co.uk/c/554/f/10979/s/27b2fee/l/0L0Scomputing0O0Ccomputing0Cnews0C22317160Ccentrica0Esigns0E79m0Edeal0Euk/story01.htm

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