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2003

THUS plc, one of the UK's leading providers of voice, data, Internet and contact centre services, today announced that it has been awarded a significant contract to migrate ScottishPower's Cathcart Business Park, in Glasgow, Scotland, to a new Gigabit Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) infrastructure. The new infrastructure will provide ScottishPower with a scaleable communications network capable of supporting the growth in data traffic volumes expected over the coming years and will provide a platform for future IP telephony services.

THUS will deploy a state-of-the-art Gigabit Ethernet LAN solution that will deliver a new, switched infrastructure, and THUS is able to offer comprehensive maintenance and support services to ScottishPower. The new core switched infrastructure will allow more consistent and comprehensive support for all network components using the latest techniques and current Industry standards so that traffic can be monitored and controlled throughout the LAN environment.

"This is a highly visible and critical project for ScottishPower" commented Jim McEwan, Director of IT, ScottishPower. "THUS has a detailed and extensive understanding of our current LAN infrastructure which is critical in delivering this most sensitive of projects".

THUS provides a range of services to ScottishPower to manage, maintain and repair its administrative telecommunications networks and systems.

Bill Allan, Chief Executive for THUS plc, said: "I am delighted that we are extending our longstanding relationship with ScottishPower. We have delivered a technically advanced solution that will seamlessly integrate ScottishPower's current network. Crucially our migration strategy is underpinned by our detailed knowledge of the ScottishPower network. This makes it much simpler for us to meet the required time-scale for deployment and implementation, while making sure the new LAN complies with ScottishPower's existing network design and equipment specification."