Cirque du Soleil gets flexible network

Troupe awards four-year deal to Orange Business Services

Cirque du Soleil has awarded a four-year €3.1m deal to Orange Business Services to deploy and manage its global network to support its venues ensuring flexibility, speed and reliability.

The troupe will use Orange Business Services' global MPLS-based IP VPN and Wan technology and professional services to make sure each on-site network can access strategic business applications and ensure reliable communication with Montreal headquarters.

To cope with the network upheaval of six touring shows re-locating every six weeks, Cirque du Soleil is getting a dedicated project manager, and service management and application performance analysis to help control logistics.

It will allow the sites are up and running on time during a tour year. Over the next 48 months, for example, the circus will tour more than 125 cities worldwide.

‘Deploying our networks on the fly as we travel across the globe presents some unique challenges, especially since we have six shows touring simultaneously,' said Danielle Savoie, vice president of knowledge management and information technologies at Cirque du Soleil.

'Our global infrastructure ensures that onsite ticket offices are up and running, staff is aware of critical performance logistics, and that as we tweak certain elements of each show, we can communicate those changes to the next stop of the tour,' she said.

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