Ontera wins college contract

A North Bay company has won a contract worth almost a half-million dollars.

Further information is included in the following news release issued today by Ontera:

Ontera has been awarded an 18-month, $450,000 contract with Collège Boréal, Ontario’s French-language College of Applied Arts and Technology, for the provision of fully integrated telecommunications products and services.

Collège Boréal is based in Sudbury, with campuses in Hearst, Kapuskasing,
Timmins, New Liskeard, Nipissing and Toronto. Through the term of the
agreement, Ontera will provide Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area
Networks (LAN) data services to all of the College’s Northern Ontario
campuses and to seven of the College’s southern Ontario locations.

The deal goes beyond the provision of traditional telecommunications
products and services; it was designed to deliver enhanced value to Collège
Boréal by positioning Ontera as a partner in delivering IP solutions.
Ontera provides enhanced reach, speed, bandwidth and reliability to
businesses like Collège Boréal by enabling the IP-based applications
essential to business success.

“This agreement will significantly enhance our network,” commented Gisèle
Chrétien, President of Collège Boréal. “Effective application of
state-of-the-art technology will improve our network capacity, reliability
and security. The outcome will be better, faster and more cost-efficient
data, videoconference and communication services.”

Under the contract, Ontera will provide a comprehensive suite of
information technology and communications services. “Ontera was able to
bring the benefit of innovative technological design, to this very
important customer, using Ontera’s Cisco-powered network, highly trained
field services staff covering all of the college’s locations in Northern
Ontario and strong partnerships with other telecommunications service
providers operating in southern Ontario and across Canada,” said Corina
Moore, Vice-President Sales at Ontera.