Orange Business Services, the enterprise services arm of France Telecom has standardized Riverbed Technology thereby allowing its customers to choose from either BlueCoat, Juniper or Riverbed for their respective WAN optimization initiatives.

The solutions are offered as part of Enterprise Application Management services which is a fully managed service in nature and is based on opex-based pricing model.

“The move to cloud computing, when applications are provided from data centers outside a company’s premises, will further accelerate the criticality of the network and the importance of implementing the right tools to ensure the performance of business essential applications is maintained at all times,” explains Richard Heaps, head of Product Management, Consulting & Solutions Integration, Orange Business Services.

Orange says that its customers already have experienced the benefits out of its enterprise application management service offerings in tie-up with Riverbed. For instance Avago achieved a 31 percent reduction in total data traffic over its network while Lenovo experienced a 50 percent increase in employee productivity.