Fiberlink Gains Momentum in Asia-Pac with Addition of Korean Conglomerate
July 10, 2003
BLUE BELL, Pa. - June 10, 2003 - Fiberlink today announced another win to its roster of international customers and partners with Korea-based LG CNS signing on as a customer and its professional services subsidiary joining as a channel partner. A leading provider of enterprise remote access solutions, Fiberlink landed 11 Asia-Pacific channel partners in 2002.
LG makes up Korea's second largest business conglomerate with 140,000 employees and 300 subsidiaries and branch offices worldwide. Fiberlink will meet the massive network communications demands of LG companies with Fiberlink's managed, policy-enabled remote access service. Running on its VPNterprise(sm) platform, Fiberlink's service helps centralized IT staff manage and secure LG's entire distributed network of companies and mobile workers.
LG joins Japan Telecom, Hong Kong-based PCCW, and Terilogy, a network services company based in Japan as recent additions to Fiberlink's Asia-Pacific roster of partners. These companies, along with eight other Asia-Pacific additions, exemplify Fiberlink's strong international sales presence after entering the market only one year ago. The company saw international revenue grow 250 percent in 2002.
In addition to being a Fiberlink customer, LG's subsidiary, LG CNS, will be a Fiberlink channel partner serving the Asia-Pacific region. This deal signifies the company's confidence in the Fiberlink solution as a complement to its best-of-breed business services. LG CNS will resell Fiberlink's various remote access services to corporate customers in need of providing their mobile workforces with secure access to complex network applications and databases.
"With Fiberlink's solution, not only do we get expansive coverage, but we also have the ability to enforce our IT security policies across the entire network of offices and mobile workers" said Gimoo Choi, Leader of Network Service Center of LG CNS. "That gives our IT staff the peace-of-mind that our network is secure and isn't compromising the productivity of our mobile employees. We have just started deploying Fiberlink solution and service and expect to expand to the whole LG's subsidiaries."
According to Lance Roncalli, president of Fiberlink's International Division, "Working with the LG has significant strategic implications for Fiberlink on many different levels. It allows us to provide excellent service to a well-respected business; it extends our presence in the Asia-Pac region through our reseller arrangement; and it solidifies our stronghold on the Korean market. Clearly, we are pleased with where we are today, but we are more excited by the opportunities ahead of us."
LG was established in 1947 as Korea's first chemical company, a success compounded when LG also
became the nation's first electronics company with is expansion into home appliances in 1958.
Today, LG is Korea's second largest business group, comprising 51 affiliates. 20 of which are
currently listed on the Korea Stock Exchange or KOSDAQ, and over 300 subsidiaries and branch
offices with 140,000 employees worldwide. The combined financial statements for 2001 showed
revenues of approximately KRW 70 trillion.
The wide array of activities that LG conducts are now coordinated within four highly focused business sectors: Chemicals & Energy, Electronics & Telecommunications, Finance, and Services. Each sector has undergone systematic changes, with improved financial compositions, restructured business portfolios, and realigned equity investment structures.
LG CNS, the leading IT service company in Korea, provides total solution package for clients' successful business in various fields of industry. In 1987, LG CNS began its services with the consolidation of all the system management service offices of over 40 LG subsidiaries and push into public and government sector, which the company made the top system integrator in.
Since then, LG CNS has been the market leader with a broad range of knowledge, IT specialists, and best quality services through continuous investment in R&D and education as well as its experience in successful business performance.
LG CNS has actively expanded its business overseas to establish local corporations in the Singapore, China, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia and, etc and has about 1,400 customers worldwide.
Fiberlink addresses the growing infrastructure complexities of enterprise access brought on by the demands of an expanding business ecosystem. Fiberlink's Enterprise Access Services System unifies worldwide remote access, management and enforcement within existing IT policy. From employees to partners, remote offices to extranets, dial-up to wireless to broadband, Fiberlink lets any organization securely create a transparent enterprise-class access bridge to virtually any extended business opportunity. Multi-network redundancy, best-of-breed application services and support, the lowest TCO and the least impact on IT help make Fiberlink a critical partner in moving businesses forward. For the first time, companies can manage every aspect of remote, mobile or wireless access with the same rigorous policy enforcement as for local users.
With hundreds of thousands of corporate users, analyst firms such as Gartner, Burton Group and Yankee Group recognize Fiberlink as a leader and innovator in the industry. Customers such as General Electric, BMC Software, Computer Sciences Corporation, Royal Caribbean, The Gillette Company, and Sun Healthcare prove it with their business.
For more information on Fiberlink, visit its Web site at http://www.fiberlink.com .
Susan Sutton
Fiberlink Communications Corp.
ssutton@fiberlink.com
(215) 793-3427
James Boike
A&R Partners for Fiberlink
jboike@arpartners.com
(212) 905-6157
Tim Powers
PR Manager, RSA Security
tpowers@rsasecurity.com
(781)515-6212
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