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Xerox, other big users turn to SITA unit; experience, coverage cited as advantages
When Xerox Business Services needed a networking partner to support its new worldwide remote publishing service, the company talked with all the major global telecom alliances: AT&T's WorldPartners, BT-MCI's Concert, and Sprint's Global One. But in the end, Xerox chose a supplier with decades of experience running data networks for airlines, not a new global venture with growing pains.
"I wasn't anxious to launch a new service and go through puberty with somebody," says Arnold Palmer, chief engineer for networking at Xerox Business Services, in Rochester, N.Y.
Xerox will announce this week that it has chosen Equant Network Services International, the recently renamed commercial arm of SITA, a Paris cooperative that operates the world's largest private data network-for 630 airlines and air transport companies worldwide. Xerox will use Equant to roll out an IP-based service that lets companies publish documents at locations worldwide, rather than having to ship them.
As Xerox rolls out its 50-location...