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KDDI and Infonet Win Project to Network Toyota's Major European Operational Sites; Upgrade Employs KDDI's International IP-VPN
No. 2004-032
KDDI Corporation is pleased to announce that Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota, Aichi; Representative Director and President: Fujio Cho, hereafter "Toyota") has awarded a data networking mandate, connecting all major Toyota operations bases across Europe, to KDDI. Toyota will employ KDDI's international IP-VPN service to upgrade and integrate its entire network. KDDI's international IP-VPN has access points in 50 countries all over the world, and in Europe, provides services in the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium.
Toyota's European network operation supports Toyota's production and sales activities across Europe including Eastern Europe. Currently, there are separate frame relay networks for production related divisions and sales related divisions. Management and operation of the new network will be centralized for more efficient operation and reduction of network operation cost. It will also respond more efficiently and economically to bringing new bases online, and to increases in network capacity due to increases in sales and production related data traffic.
KDDI will implement redundancy throughout the network, and in all network devices such as routers, for safe and secure network operation. The actual lines providing connectivity between Japan and Europe are also redundant, making the network highly reliable.
KDDI will work with Infonet Service Corporation, California, US, who will bring superior IP technology and experience in running and maintaining networks to the construction and operation of the Toyota European network.
The first phase of the Toyota network, connecting the head office in Japan to the European headquarter in Belgium, as well as plants in France and the UK, was completed in October 2003. 12 additional bases were added to the Toyota network by the end of January 2004.
Production, logistics, and sales and marketing will be included into the network in this phase.
The Toyota network will expand to cover more than a hundred bases in 27 European countries by the end of fiscal 2004.
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