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03/09/2010

By Scott Thompson

Cable&Wireless Worldwide has secured a five-year contract, valued at several million pounds, to connect 32 distribution sites and offices in the UK and Hong Kong for Next.

The company’s next-generation network will underpin all of Next’s critical communications including taking orders and dispatching and receiving goods into warehouses. It will also provide the retailer with significantly more capacity to work with higher volumes of goods than it was previously able to process.

As part of the deal, C&W Worldwide will also provide Next with Application Performance Management (APM), offering real-time visibility and control of what is happening on its network. A spokesman for Next comments: “We needed a highly resilient network which would support our current needs and allow for future growth and new technologies. Additionally, the APM service gives us more control over our network traffic than ever before, helping us deliver even better service to our stores and online customers.”

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