Standard Chartered gets BT network services

BANGALORE: British Telecommunications plc (BT) will supply international network services to Standard Chartered Bank in 16 countries, including UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Malaysia.

BT said in a statement that it has signed a global network services contract with the bank to provide high performance resilient network services. Standard Chartered Bank operates in more than 50 countries.

A multi-protocol label switching network was put in place to eliminate single points of failure and minimize risk globally, BT said.

This strategy guarantees the quality and availability of critical services that are used for access to centralized banking applications and systems in the bank’s global data centres and shared service centres.