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Optus Evolve delivers tangible business benefits today, but more importantly it provides a platform for new applications when your business is ready for them. With Optus Evolve:

• You can converge voice and data on your network and manage it more easily - enabling you and your end users to be more productive
• Remote and mobile workers as well as different company sites can share critical information securely and flexibly
• You can take advantage of more bandwidth and it is easier to upgrade as your business grows
• IT teams can focus on developing and implementing applications that improve business productivity, rather than running the network.

Optus Evolve IP VPN is built on the Optus Evolve network, which is designed from the ground up to support new, faster access methods, and incorporates greater redundancy and application-aware capability. Key improvements introduced with Optus Evolve include:

• Delivery of important benefits such as simplified billing, better reporting and increased visibility of network performance - enabling you to focus on building your business, rather than running your network.
• Easy-to-manage remote access solution - enables remote users to access corporate applications without the need for special equipment or software.
• Modular approach makes it easy to add services as your business needs change - ensuring your network evolves with your business.
• Total core network capacity increased by hundreds of times compared to the current network - ensures ample capacity to support the requirements of future bandwidth-hungry converged applications.
• Reduction from eight different router operating systems to one - to simplify network management and reliability.
• More than 80% reduction in the total number of routers required in the network - greatly reduces network complexity for better network reliability.

Importantly, Optus Evolve includes full inter-working with Optus Private IP (OPI) services for customers who wish to expand their existing Optus IP VPN.

The term 'new generation network' or NGN is commonly used to describe networks that are characterised by the use of IP, fibre optics, DSL and new operational and billing support systems. The combination of the new Optus Evolve network and its supporting systems enables Optus to deliver an enhanced range of core networking services such as IP VPN and Ethernet VPN, currently available converged applications such as voice over IP and multimedia, and is a key enabler for the converged applications of the future.

Optus Evolve is ideally suited to the needs of corporate and government organisations, typically with more than 200 employees. Please call us on 1800 646 050 to find out how Optus Evolve can make your business more productive.

Optus has extensive network coverage, through national optical fibre, DSL, mobile and satellite networks, and can reach the majority of Australian businesses. Following significant network investment over the past two years, Optus can now reach more businesses than ever before. This means Optus can better control the experience that you have dealing with us, as we are less reliant on third party providers to deliver network connections on our behalf.

Since 2001, Optus has been at the heart of the SingTel Group, Asia's leading communications company. Through the SingTel ConnectPlus Network, we can connect your sites around the world into your Optus Evolve network.

Optus Evolve is an advanced IP communications network that delivers tomorrow's converged business applications today - enabling your business to be more productive, now and into the future.

Optus Evolve delivers a range of improvements that can enhance your business's performance:

• It is a 'new generation network' that replaces multiple legacy technologies with a single, easy-to-manage network platform
• It is an application-aware network with faster bandwidths, designed to easily deliver converged business applications that enhance productivity and reduce costs
• Improved reliability and resilience is an integral part of the network design - software upgrades can be conducted in-service - for fewer planned and unplanned network outages
• Reduced network complexity allows for simplified network management and comprehensive reporting
• It caters to the increasing demand for flexible anywhere, anytime work practices with an easy-to-manage remote access solution
• It is modular in design and highly scalable so it can be readily adapted to your changing business needs.

Some of the key features of Optus Evolve are:

• Application-aware capability - enabling you to develop and manage optimal service levels for your converged business applications
• Class of service/quality of service (CoS/QoS) performance targets in the core network for round trip time (RTT), jitter and packet loss - to provide an ideal platform for network convergence
• Greatly improved reporting and billing services - to give you more control and take the complexity out of dealing with your telecommunications provider
• It provides an easy-to-manage remote access solution that enables remote and mobile workers, as well as trusted business partners, to access applications on your network
• It introduces standardisation of features across all business-grade services - to simplify network operations
• Ethernet interfaces are standard across all access methods - for lower-cost customer premises equipment, and standardisation of the local and wide area networks
• Port and access are bundled - to simplify pricing, billing and cost allocation by site
• It delivers improved features and higher bandwidths at lower total cost
• It includes improved redundancy and service level targets