{"id":2965,"date":"2012-06-12T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T07:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ekinops.com\/news\/news\/afone-turns-to-ekinops-for-data-center-interconnection-assuring-reliable-delivery-of-multiprotocol-services"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:46:07","slug":"afone-sappuie-sur-ekinops-pour-linterconnexion-des-centres-de-donnees-assurant-une-livraison-fiable-de-services-multiprotocol","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/news\/customers\/afone-turns-to-ekinops-for-data-center-interconnection-assuring-reliable-delivery-of-multiprotocol-services","title":{"rendered":"Afone s\u2019appuie sur EKINOPS pour l\u2019interconnexion des data centers, assurant une livraison fiable des services multiprotocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afone focuses on telecom, payment, and security services for enterprises and retail businesses, and also functions as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) for enterprises and residential customers. It turned to EKINOPS for a solution that would provide flexible, cost-effective, and reliable data center interconnection transporting SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and Fibre Channel protocols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EKINOPS 360 transport platform, with its T-Chip (Transport on a Chip) technology, allows Afone to transport multiple protocols very efficiently, maximizing the use of fiber infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EKINOPS 360 provides industry-leading economic efficiencies unmatched by other transport solutions in the market. In addition, the EKINOPS 360 provides for a level of reliability far exceeding similar solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cEKINOPS is the company best suited to meet our needs. The EKINOPS 360 gives us the flexibility we need to aggregate different protocols, it is economical and has the highest reliability,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> said Guillaume Rousseau, head of engineering at Afone. <em><strong>\u201cSupport is very important to us and EKINOPS promised and delivers superior support.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>\u201cToday, the increasing migration to cloud-based services has elevated data centers to paramount importance for service providers such as Afone,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> said Rob Adams, vice president of marketing for Ekinops. <em><strong>\u201cThe competitive cloud computing market requires moving massive volumes of data among these centers, with the utmost reliability and affordability.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201dThe EKINOPS equipment that is now filling Afone\u2019s needs does so cost-effectively because of the unique EKINOPS T-Chip technology. The T-Chip concentrates the equipment\u2019s transport intelligence into a highly compact and efficient design that EKINOPS can custom-program to meet the precise needs of the service provider customer. This approach serves to reduce costs, footprint, ongoing power consumption, and delivery times to customers.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afone, un fournisseur de services de t\u00e9l\u00e9communications bas\u00e9 en France, a d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 des \u00e9quipements d\u2019Ekinops, un fournisseur leader d\u2019\u00e9quipements de transport optique de nouvelle g\u00e9n\u00e9ration pour les fournisseurs de services, afin de connecter ses centres de donn\u00e9es et am\u00e9liorer la fourniture de services de donn\u00e9es multiprotocol.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2941,"template":"","press-releases-category":[87],"class_list":["post-2965","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","press-releases-category-customers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3677,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/2965\/revisions\/3677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"press-releases-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekinops.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases-category?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}