Orange Business To Provide European Union’s Backbone Network For Trusted Data Exchange
By Francois Giudice, Bureau Chief, France
Orange Business will provide the Layer 2 / Layer 3 backbone that enables the infrastructure’s functionality, integration and long-term scalability.
As the network operator, integrator and platform player, Orange will work closely with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Digital Services (DG DIGIT), the department designing, building and managing this digital ecosystem.
“As reliance on digital technologies increases and cyber threats continue to evolve, the EU has placed digital trust at the heart of its strategic priorities. Core to the TESTA-EIRIS backbone project is the drive to build a secure, trusted European digital ecosystem. Orange Business is proud to be chosen to deliver this robust, adaptable, and future-proof infrastructure to support the EU’s critical needs,” said President of Europe for Orange Business Richard van Wageningen.
Supporting a smarter, safer and more connected EU infrastructure
Through strategic design and clear governance, this new secured-by-design network will support European digital initiatives and improve administrative interactions, making it easier to implement policies across the EU.
Orange Business will provide critical building blocks across core capabilities for the network, supported by a strong Network Operating Center and Security Operating Center.
Built on a single backbone connecting at least 12 Points of Presence (PoPs) across five strategic European regions, the architecture will deliver secure-by-design, high availability (99.999%) and resilient connectivity across sites and multi-cloud environments.
The solution will combine backbone infrastructure, cloud connectivity and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies securely connecting distributed sites. Evolution Platform,
Orange Business’s AI-first, trusted connectivity platform for delivering enterprise digital services, will replace dedicated hardware with software-based virtual services. This platform model provides a simpler and fully digital customer journey and is built on a foundation of trusted, sovereign European infrastructure.
