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Orange Business Services announces Business Livebox, a unique platform of convergent services for enterprises

Paris, June 6, 2006

Companies using Business Livebox will benefit from Orange Business Services new convergent services in Europe.
  • The Business Livebox is scaleable: businesses will leverage future as well as existing convergent services
  • The Business Livebox offers guaranteed continuity, security and quality of service
  • The Business Livebox is adapted to each environment and allows customers to keep their previously-installed business telephony.
Adapted to the existing environment
Business Livebox enables enterprises to simply and progressively migrate toward voice over IP. It integrates classical Internet access services with enterprise sites networking on an xDSL link.

Available in three versions, Business Livebox allows businesses to keep their existing telephone equipment and numbers such as analog phones, fax, PBX or IPBX:

  • Business Livebox 100: towards all-IP through an ADSL connection
  • Business Livebox 500: migration of the existing analog telephony without a PBX to telephony over IP
  • Business Livebox 1000: migration of the telephony infrastructure including a PBX to telephony over IP, at the business customer's own chosen pace
Already available in France - soon in Europe
Since February, Business Livebox 1000 is included in Orange Business Services's Business Internet offering in France.  Business Internet is a voice-data service including unlimited voice to fixed numbers in France, as well as business Internet services, PBX connection to Business Livebox while keeping the same telephone numbers, the prioritisation of voice traffic, as well as a single contract, bill and customer care service.

By December 2006, Business Livebox will be included in the Orange Business Services' new IP communication offerings in Spain, the UK and Poland.
 
IP communication for new services
Thanks to Business Livebox, integrated to IP communication solutions of Orange Business Services, businesses will be able to develop new services at their own pace, according to their unique needs, such as: 
  • Implement telephony over IP from a fixed phone,
  • Use wireless from a laptop,
  • Access video conferencing,
  • Use instant messaging,
  • Exchange, download and send large files simultaneously,
  • Install video surveillance systems,
  • Use IP-based payment services.

Business Livebox is a homogeneous and coherent range of convergence services covering the needs of very small businesses, SMEs and small sites of large enterprises as well as multinationals . Business Livebox completes the existing Livebox range, which includes the Livebox for consumers and the Livebox Pro, a fully secure broadband Internet connection designed for very small professional entities.

 
All the company and product names mentioned, as well as the trademarks, trade names and logos of third parties, might be the registered trademarks of their respective owners.
 

About Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services represents the business communications solutions and services provided by the France Telecom Group as of June 1st, 2006. They were previously sold under the France Telecom, Orange, Etrali, Almerys, EGT, Expertel Consulting, France Telecom Intelmatique, SETIB and Solicia brands.
The offers include converged voice, data and mobile services as well as IT expertise and managed services, all designed to transform business processes and improve productivity. Orange Business Services is present in 166 countries and territories and serves customers in 220.