Feb, 2002 : Sprint Provides Hudson's Bay with National Frame Relay

📅 February 7, 2002 - Sprint Canada Inc., a subsidiary ofCall-Net Enterprises Inc., announced yesterday the successful implementationof Hudson's Bay Company's national frame relay network as part of athree year data contract. The managed network consolidates all remotelocations and dispersed local area networks, providing connectivity foremployees on the corporate network and retail stores communicating with eachother and with head office. Sprint Canada also provides voice communicationsand call centre services for HBC.

"As we work to communicate more effectively with our associates andcustomers at our over 500 stores, we needed a network solution that couldmeet the growing bandwidth requirements in an affordable manner and thatwould relieve us of much of the day to day administration and support" saidJim Lambert, general manager, IT Infrastructure, HBC. "Sprint Canada hasdemonstrated its strengths in a well-managed integration and implementationcapabilities as well as responsive account management and customer service."
Greg McCamus, president of Sprint Canada's enterprise communicationssolutions group comments, "Our solution had to be scalable and capable ofaddressing HBC's future requirements for employee and customer interaction.Primarily it was designed to reduce the up front capital investment andimplementation time required to upgrade and manage the network internally.The design also provides improved redundancy and increased speed."