BaseN Now Global Service Provider For Telefónica

Online, May 7, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Today, BaseN, the next generation real-time data management solution provider, announced its new expanded role as official global service vendor for Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, as a continuation of a service that monitors the voice quality in IP networks provided since 2009.

The service is offered along a pay-per-use model, costs purely depending on the number of devices being measured. BaseN will monitor for Telefónica different measures (round-trip time, delay, jitter, packet loss and MOS - Mean Opinion Score) of VoIP call centers at several sites located in Europe, for customers in eHealth, Tourism and Industry sectors.

"New measurement targets, regardless of their geographical location, can be quickly added whenever the need arises, which is very beneficial for a company like Telefónica - operating internationally and with constantly changing and growing monitoring needs", says Pasi Hurri, President and CEO of BaseN. "We are looking forward to continue opening up new opportunities for Telefónica through the capabilities of BaseN's scalable production platform."

The provider selection was conditioned mainly by technical reasons. BaseN's modern, SaaS-business-model-based (Software as a Service), monitoring solution has proven to be the most convenient and cost effective tool for Telefónica over the past years. It has been deployed over the existing IP network without additional equipment or investments, with BaseN being responsible for all associated hardware and software.

"With the BaseN Platform we not only have a solution that provides immediate and accurate data but that is also flexible enough to adapt to the requirements of our customers and provide them what they really need. This is of high priority for Telefónica as a driver of technology innovation and customer satisfaction enhancement", says Jose Manuel De Arce Estopañán, Associate Director at Telefónica.

For more information, please contact:

Mónica Arquero Cabrera, Country Manager Spain, BaseN Corporation

Tel. +34.647.73.78.29, monica.arquero(at)basen.net

About BaseN Corporation

BaseN Corporation is a next generation real-time data management solution provider. The Company's proprietary distributed platform collects, stores, analyzes, and presents massive data flows in real-time to its end users. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, BaseN has been refining advanced, private cloud technology since its inception in 2001, resulting in a very resilient, reliable and cost-effective software platform that is endlessly scalable.

The BaseN Platform can be rapidly deployed and integrated into existing corporate infrastructures and the technology provides end-to-end (e2e) automatic discovery, monitoring, analysis, correlation, reporting and storage, and display of data on the network across all devices and protocols while delivering reliable and real-time measurement data.

The BaseN Platform was originally developed for the enterprise information technology and telecommunications industries and the Company currently has systems deployed in these industries to over 60 customers in over 80 countries. The system includes 1500 server processors, but can accommodate up to a million. For example, every second broad-band connection in Finland is monitored by BaseN.

More recently, BaseN has focused on the energy market, including Smart Grid applications, and its solution has been deployed by major utilities in Europe. The BaseN Platform currently measures an equivalent of more than 10 million smart meters every minute and makes the data available in real time. BaseN aims to be the foundation of the Smart Grid by connecting every dot in the energy market. www.basen.net

About Telefónica

Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers. From this outstanding position in the industry, and with its mobile, fixed and broadband businesses as the key drivers of its growth, Telefonica has focused its strategy on becoming a leading company in the digital world.

The company has a significant presence in 25 countries and a customer base that amounts more than 306 million accesses around the world. Telefonica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, where the company focuses an important part of its growth strategy.
Telefonica is a 100% listed company, with more than 1.5 million direct shareholders. Its share capital currently comprises 4.563.996.485 ordinary shares traded on the Spanish Stock Market (Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia) and on those in London, New York, Lima, and Buenos Aires. www.telefonica.com