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Etex at a glance

Reduced Costs
COST REDUCTION
Additional Security Expertise
PRIVATE CONNECTIVITY TO APPLICATIONS
Designated Resource
DESIGNATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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Etex, a global building materials specialist with around 14,000 employees at offices and manufacturing sites around the world.

14,000

EMPLOYEES

2.97B (EUR)

ANNUAL REVENUE (2021)

100+

NUMBER OF PRODUCTION FACILITIES

25

NUMBER OF COUNTRIES

The Testimonial

Do you want to hear the CIO's view of how Etex, a global building materials specialist, benefits from GTT's Managed SD-WAN as part of its future-proof global network? Watch the video to find out how the solution helps achieve Etex's digital transformation goals through an increase in uptime and bandwidth with a lower total cost of ownership.

The Need

Etex is driving a digital transformation initiative to become a more customer-centric organization. Its goal is to harmonize and improve processes, activities, and collaboration across its business. As it moved to more application-aware networking and greater cloud adoption, bandwidth for many of the company's locations needed to be increased in a secure and agile way, without increasing costs.

Improve efficiency

Harmonize and improve processes, activities, and collaboration across its business

Increase bandwidth

Moved to more application-aware networking and greater cloud adoption

Better support

Harmonize and facilitate collaboration across its business with Microsoft Teams

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Together with GTT, we have built a strategy to transform and future-proof our global network. . .as well as delivering all the benefits of an agile and resilient managed SD-WAN solution.

Richard Pym – Head of Technology, Etex

The GTT Solution

GTT provides Etex with Managed SD-WAN across more than 91 sites around the world. The solution is integrated with GTT's global Tier 1 internet backbone for an enhanced user experience. Together with GTT Cloud Connect - providing private and direct cloud connectivity - and combined with WAN optimization, the solution accelerates the performance of Etex's business-critical applications, such as those residing in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

GTT also delivers SIP Trunking services to Etex, enabling inbound and outbound global calling that complement the manufacturer’s cloud-based Microsoft Teams deployment.

A designated GTT Professional Services team collaborates with Etex on its ongoing digital transformation, offering tailored design, project, technical and assurance support. Lastly they are jointly exploring a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework for the next evolution of its networking and threat protection in order to continuously mitigate potential risks in the changing security landscape.

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