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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (13101)	8/30/1999 1:55:00 PM
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AT&T Wins $400 Million Contract From AlliedSignal att.com NN platform serves IBM recovery net(http://www.brs.ibm.com/brspwnws.nsf/In+the+Press/1F91D345D0A...),Bank One, CitiBank and others.All of these customers are working with AT&T Solutions Group, which has contract with NN(May 1998) BASKING RIDGE, N.J. ? AT&T [NYSE:T] announced today it has signed a multi-year agreement valued at more than $400 million with AlliedSignal Inc. [NYSE:ALD] for a total global networking solution that supports the company?s corporate growth strategy. The agreement calls for AT&T Solutions, AT&T?s professional services subsidiary, to provide advanced global networking management and standardize communications technology capabilities across AlliedSignal?s infrastructure. AT&T Solutions will centralize AlliedSignal?s communications technology and manage it globally across the company?s business units. The agreement involves nearly 400 sites in 19 countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia. AlliedSignal will receive a flexible, reliable and cost-effective networking infrastructure through an integrated portfolio of AT&T?s business services, including wireless services nationwide for more than 3,000 wireless phones, local telephone service at company locations in the United States, and voice and data services across the U.S. and Europe. Standardizing communications technology supports AlliedSignal?s growth strategy by accelerating its e-business activities and by enabling quick, easy assimilation of new businesses into the corporate structure. AT&T Solutions also will work with AlliedSignal to develop and apply communications standards across the company?s business units, and achieve a predictable cost structure. ?This agreement with AT&T enables us to establish a global, standardized communications platform that supports our aggressive growth strategy,? said Larry Kittelberger, AlliedSignal senior vice president and chief information officer. ?We?re migrating to a centralized communications infrastructure-management model.? Jim Pagos, AT&T Solutions? chief operating officer, said: ?AlliedSignal is clearly a company on the move. Its management team has a clear vision of where the business is headed and how strategic partners fit into the equation. They?re looking to us to manage their migration to a common, enterprise-wide communications architecture with standardized networking applications, and to bundle a full portfolio of communications services ? including local and wireless ? that supports their businesses around the world.? Under the agreement, AT&T will manage AlliedSignal?s global data wide area network (WAN) and North American voice and local area network (LAN) infrastructure ? including hundreds of routers, hubs and switches. AT&T Solutions also will assume management of AlliedSignal?s existing frame relay and private-line routed networks, as well as teleconferencing services. AT&T Solutions will manage AlliedSignal?s networking capabilities from its Global Client Support Center in Dublin, Ohio, via the AT&T Solutions Global Enterprise Management System (GEMS). GEMS produces seamless networking capabilities ? including predictive management ? by integrating proprietary software developed at AT&T Labs with best-in-class enterprise-management software. Earlier this month AT&T Solutions announced that Bank One had awarded it a contract valued at $465 million to unify the bank?s data and voice-networking infrastructure. That contract will run concurrently with a six-year, $1.4 billion agreement between Bank One (www.bankone.com) and AT&T Solutions announced last year. About AlliedSignal AlliedSignal (www.alliedsignal.com) is an advanced technology and manufacturing company, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services, automotive products, chemicals, fibers, plastics and advanced materials. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor?s 500 Index. The company employs more than 70,400 people in some 40 countries. About AT&T/AT&T Solutions Group AT&T (www.att.com) is the world?s premier provider of voice and data communications, with more than 80 million customers, including businesses, government and consumers. AT&T operates the world?s largest, most powerful long-distance network and the largest wireless network in North America. The company is a leading supplier of data and Internet services for businesses and the largest direct Internet service provider to consumers in the U.S. AT&T also provides local telephone service to a growing number of businesses. AT&T Solutions Group (www.attsolutions.com) provides seamless managed and outsourcing solutions that maximize the competitive advantage of networking-based electronic commerce and other networked applications. It uses state-of-the-art tools to operate and manage voice, data, video and Internet /intranet services, including local and wide area networks, PBXs, voice-processing systems and voice and data terminals.