Nov 6, 2002 : Sprint Services SCP Pool Corporation
📅 - Communications service provider Sprint (sprint.com) announced on Wednesday that it has formed an agreement to provide data services for wholesale swimming pool supplies distributor SCP Pool Corporation.
The three-year, multimillion-dollar deal, says Sprint, will connect SCP's nearly 200 locations and 2,200 employees, enabling the company to provide superior service to over 34,000 swimming pool industry customers.
Sprint will provide an international high-speed frame relay data network, connecting North American and European locations, as well as a range of IP data services. SCP has also chosen Sprint to host its critical IT infrastructure components, including application servers, Web servers and storage systems in the Sprint E|Solutions Center in Dallas. Sprint will provide SCP with Web hosting and colocation services.
"We must ensure that our communications, facilities, disaster preparedness and technology initiatives are ready to support our growth objectives -- which include helping to grow the swimming pool industry, our customers' businesses, and SCP's business through innovative and technologically savvy sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain programs," says Tim Babco, SCP IT director. "Sprint delivers not only the cost-effective communications solutions we need, but as importantly, the stability, reliability and customer service we require in a technology partner. This helps us grow and maintain the trust of our customers and shareholders that we are making intelligent business choices."
The three-year, multimillion-dollar deal, says Sprint, will connect SCP's nearly 200 locations and 2,200 employees, enabling the company to provide superior service to over 34,000 swimming pool industry customers.
Sprint will provide an international high-speed frame relay data network, connecting North American and European locations, as well as a range of IP data services. SCP has also chosen Sprint to host its critical IT infrastructure components, including application servers, Web servers and storage systems in the Sprint E|Solutions Center in Dallas. Sprint will provide SCP with Web hosting and colocation services.
"We must ensure that our communications, facilities, disaster preparedness and technology initiatives are ready to support our growth objectives -- which include helping to grow the swimming pool industry, our customers' businesses, and SCP's business through innovative and technologically savvy sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain programs," says Tim Babco, SCP IT director. "Sprint delivers not only the cost-effective communications solutions we need, but as importantly, the stability, reliability and customer service we require in a technology partner. This helps us grow and maintain the trust of our customers and shareholders that we are making intelligent business choices."
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