Sep, 2001 : Genuity, IIJ Offer Global IP-VPN Services In Japan

📅 September 5, 2001 - Genuity Inc. (genuity.com), a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, and Internet Initiative Japan Inc. (iij.ad.jp) and IIJ America Inc., yesterday announced their plan to offer managed IP Virtual Private Network services to enterprises in Japan.

The IP-VPN offering will enable Japan-based businesses and organizations to establish secure Internet-based communications between locations in Japan and the United States via the Internet. A special introductory offer for the service will be made from Sept. 4, 2001 to March 31, 2002. Customers who sign up for VPN services during the introductory period will receive the service free of charge for three months.
IIJ has worked closely with Genuity to integrate our award-winning managed IP-VPN service with their security offering. As a result, Japanese customers have the best possible combination of IP-VPN services available to them,'' said Genuity International president Gabriel Yackanich. ``When Genuity won an industry award for managed security services this year, it proved that IIJ had teamed with the right partner.
We anticipate an increasing need over the next few years for global networking by our high-end corporate customers in the Japanese marketplace,'' said Koichi Suzuki, president and chief executive officer of IIJ and chairman of IIJ America, IIJ's New York-based 88.2 percent owned subsidiary. As investment in new corporate network systems is growing in Japan, blue-chip corporations require premium VPN service for international networking. This new VPN service demonstrates our commitment to developing our international business and offering total solutions to our customers. We will continue to work at extending our service availability to the United States and Europe.
The service is available on DSL, T1/E1 and T3/E3 lines. It will use Nortel Networks Contivity VPN switch family, which scales from a few IP VPN tunnels up to 5,000 tunnels per switch over the Internet. IIJ's IP VPN service includes 24 x 7 monitoring and management by security experts, hardware and software maintenance, customer support, and event response services ensuring secure, reliable global IP-VPN communications. The VPN topology is flexible enough to respond to a wide range of network configurations and bandwidths, and enables controllable access to each IP address for high levels of security. Further enhancing customer convenience, the IIJ service offers Japanese-language support in the United States, as well as payment in yen, for Japanese companies based in the United States.