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Jotun Group Eyes Blossom Development in China Coatings Market TrueCONNECT™ Provided Much-Needed Stability for Mission Critical Applications to Yield Better Efficiency and Service Quality

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Jotun Group is a major international providing necessary data, operation was delayed Benefits of producer of paints and powder and thus service quality was severely eroded.

TrueCONNECT™ coatings. Headquartered in Norway, it Another headache brought by the previous VPN was has 67 companies and 36 production One Region, One its incapability to well support videoconference facilities on five continents. In 2005, it service. Users kept complaining the inferior video Network Solution achieved USD 1 billion revenue. Burj quality. The giant coating producer requires better Fully-Meshed Al-Arab in , Tour Eiffel in Paris network quality, stability and reliability to support as well as Queen Mary 2, the largest corporate development strategy. CPCNet Topology cruise liner in the world, are all TrueCONNECT™ and MetroCONNECT services Secure Jotun’s clients. answered these needs. Reliable, Resilient Jotun landed China in the 80s. In a decade, it set up Superior Network Boost Efficiency and High Quality branch offices in , and TrueCONNECT™ laid an excellent foundation for Optimisation of Suzhou. In 2006, Jotun marked their milestone in Jotun China to develop effective enterprise China Market by partnering COSCO International application system. Resources and Cost- Holdings Limited to form a joint venture Jotun TrueCONNECT™ is the first MPLS-based VPN Effective COSCO Marine Coatings Co., Ltd, which is service in the Greater China region. Mr. Fu claimed expected to be the worldwide largest marine coating With multiple classes that it boosted efficiency of the ERP system, raised supplier in 5 years. In 2005, Jotun Group established stability of the network and eased burden of the IT of service to help another company in Suzhou - Jotun Coatings department as well as storage devices. The (Zhangjiagang) Co. Ltd., its first wholly owned prioritise traffic connectivity service of CPCNet also strengthened subsidiary in China. It is also one of the largest and the communications between the company and Scalable most advanced coating producers. 24 x 7 Network headquarters in Norway, as well as business Stability and Quality of TrueCONNECT™ as partners and clients. Management the Key to Effective Communications Peter Fu, the Information Technology Manager of Videoconference quality has been improved greatly, Jotun China, revealed that the company deployed so it could link up offices in Guangzhou, VPN technology in 2002 for its full-blown deployment and Suzhou by transforming internal meetings into of Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) system to videoconferences. This facilitates operation report enhance communications among branches. and decision making, so efficiency and collaboration Unfortunately, the initially deployed VPN service was among various offices are improved. The company slow and unstable. It adversely affected Jotun’s daily also applies videoconference technology in operations. In some circumstances, the VPN service interview, so that its recruitment network could failed to connect the ERP system, so it fell short in spread wider to locate the best-suited candidates.

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A Stable Platform for Diversified Applications In the past, network In 2006, Jotun China took advantage of TrueCONNECT™ to build an enterprise business interruptions paralyzed application and approval management system.

operations and results in “Some documents would go through approval substantial economic process in different offices. Fax was time-consuming and could eventually end up in blurred images. Now loss. TrueCONNECT™ we have our electronic document management tackled the problem system built on of TrueCONNECT™. It streamlined the approval process and solved the ™ well. Its stability could TrueCONNECT is a managed above-mentioned problems. The document Network service using MPLS support mission critical management system needs only 10 minutes to (Multi Protocol Label Switching) applications. What’s finish the works which took 2 days in the past,” stated Mr. Fu. VPN service with different More? CPCNet Classes of Services (CoS) to link A Trusted Network Service Provider committed to provide “In the past, network interruptions paralyzed together offices and sites in highest level of services. operations and results in substantial economic loss. different locations. TrueCONNECT™ tackled the problem well. Its In case of network stability could support mission critical applications. TrueCONNECT™ provides a highly failure, CPCNet is What’s More? CPCNet committed to provide highest secure and efficient network for always the first to know level of services. In case of possible network interruptions, CPCNet is always the first to know and transmission of data, voice, and and send us alert, so send us alert proactively, so that we could prepare video applications with that we could prepare well for the issues,” said Mr. Fu. Outstanding guaranteed Quality-of-Service technical knowledge and attentive services are the (QoS). well for those problems. key reasons CPCNet won the faith of Jotun China.

Mr. Fu revealed that Jotun China is planning to TrueCONNECT™ VPN is a cost- Peter Fu explore North and Northeast China market. He is Information Technology Manager confident that CPCNet’s TrueCONNECT™ is the effective alternative to other Jotun Coatings (Zhangjiagang) Co., Ltd solid foundation that drives Jotun China to success. Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks www.jotun.com.cn (VPNs) without compromise to security.

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