Tele Danmark will use Nokia's integrated solutions to offer advanced fixed network Internet services to small, medium and large size corporations as well as municipalities and the civil service. Tele Danmark will act as the host for its customers' VPN and Firewall services. Alternatively, the customers may purchase the appliance from Tele Danmark, which will then be acting as the distributor of the products.
Nokia will supply Tele Danmark with its IP security appliance solution, including VPN 200, IP330, IP 440 and IP 650 products with related customer services. The Nokia offering integrates Check Point Software Technologies' market leading FireWall-1/VPN-1 software with the Nokia high performance, high availability IP security appliance providing customers with the industry's best VPN/security appliance solution.
"The demand for secure Internet services is growing rapidly. Our aim is to develop our IP security offering in a way that best meets the needs of our corporate customers. Easy to install and configure, Nokia's market-leading IP security appliance was the best solution for us to provide these services to our customers," says Senior Vice President Frank Olesen, Tele Danmark A/S.
"Nokia has been in close co-operation with Tele Danmark since 1993. We are very happy now to expand this relationship to the area of IP security," says Mr. Steen Boas Andersen, Managing Director, Nokia Denmark A/S.
Nokia flexible IP network appliances combine market-leading security and network software on a world-class IP networking platform. Built for plug-and-play operation and supported from top to bottom by Nokia technical support engineers, these appliances simplify and accelerate the deployment of sophisticated security and network software implementations
Tele Danmark is the principal provider of a full range of telecommunications services in Denmark and holds significant interests in a range of telecom companies across Northern and Continental Europe. Domestic activities include landline and cellular telephone services, data communications, Internet, leased lines, cable television and directory services. The total number of employees in the group (exclusive of associated enterprises) is 16,666. Tele Danmark has DKK 47.7bn in assets (USD 6.6bn at the half year USD/DKK exchange rate of 7.20). The Company was privatized in 1994 and today Ameritech owns 42% of the shares, with the remaining shares held by individual and institutional shareowners all over the world. The market value of Tele Danmark's shares is presently approximately DKK 82.5bn (USD 11.6bn).
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its innovative products and solutions. The company is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks, related services as well as multimedia terminals. In 1999, Nokia's net sales totaled EUR 19.8 billion (USD 19.9 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 55 000 people.