AT&T Announces New Managed Bandwidth Service [using NN equipment]
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Tuesday May 5, 8:07 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998--AT&T Solutions announced an important
new managed network service at the Networld + InterOp '98 tradeshow here today for
corporations that need flexible, dynamic bandwidth on demand for applications requiring multiple
networks.
The new offering, AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service, integrates corporate voice, image, video
and data network bandwidth requirements at a customer's premises with a common, managed
end-to-end global platform of AT&T services.
The new service expands the suite of AT&T Managed Network Solutions (MNS) capabilities and
gives customers a single managed solution by integrating AT&T private line, frame relay and
asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) services with an industry-leading family of Newbridge
Networks premises products.
''Customers look to AT&T Solutions for increasingly sophisticated network-management services
so they can pursue their business strategies while we manage their high-performance networking
platforms,'' said Rick Roscitt, president and CEO of AT&T Solutions.
''This new service provides a single, managed-network resource that provides access to data,
video and voice services and can be reconfigured to respond to changes in technology and
evolving customer bandwidth requirements,'' he said. ''No other provider in the industry offers as
much in a comprehensive, managed-network package.''
AT&T Solutions Vice President Ed Nalbandian, who has responsibility for MNS, said that
deploying AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service with the Newbridge(R) Global Services
Management Platform, MainStreet(R) and MainStreetXpresst(TM) products enables AT&T to
offer the industry's most comprehensive suite of services that are managed and able to be
reconfigured end-to-end.
Depending on a customer's hardware, dial-backup, configuration and transport service designs,
AT&T will provide individualized performance-threshold metrics based on specific customer
network designs, he said. AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service is currently in controlled
introduction and is scheduled for general availability later this year.
AT&T Solutions manages the networks of clients who subscribe to AT&T Managed Bandwidth
Service and other offers from Global Network Management Centers in Durham, N.C.; Coral
Gables, Fla.; Toronto; Redditch, U.K.; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Singapore; Bangalore,
India; and Shanghai, China.
AT&T has invested more than $100 million over the past two years in the sophisticated AT&T
Solutions networking-management platform and tools that provide its customers a differentiated
level of managed-services quality and performance.
AT&T Solutions, through its outsourcing, networking integration and call center practices,
provides linked professional service and seamless solutions that maximize the competitive
advantage of networking-based electronic commerce applications.
The AT&T unit provides clients with customized information technology solutions using
state-of-the-art tools to operate and manage voice, data, video and internet / intranet services,
including local and wide area networks, PABXs, voice-processing systems and voice and data
terminals.
AT&T Solutions can be reached on the web at att.com
AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service backgrounder
AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service is an important new tool in helping companies manage their
networking resources. Key components of the service include:
Integrated Network Access Arrangements, which aggregate low to high capacity (subrate
to OC3) voice, data and video bandwidth requirements.
Managed Multiplexer Professional Services, which provide physical and logical
management of managed, end-to-end bandwidth and customer premises multiplexers
through the AT&T MNS suite of Professional Services.
On Line Customer Partition, which provides corporate network customers unprecedented
view of end- to-end services.
Managed Bandwidth Private Networks, which provide corporate network customers with
an on-line customer partition and secure pool of bandwidth that mix and match Integrated
Network Access Arrangements to optimize narrowband and broadband voice, data and
video bandwidth requirements.
Reconfigurable Bandwidth Features, including rapid provisioning; reconfiguration on
demand; time-of-day rerouting; disaster recovery map; bandwidth on demand and Internet
access quality of service (QOS).
Performance Management Features, including on-line performance reporting; and proactive
trouble reporting.
AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service also provides corporate network customers the industry's
most complete set of managed customer interfaces. With Newbridge Networks Mainstreet and
MainstreetXpress intelligent network access multiplexers deployed at the customer's premises,
AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service supports a full range of network service segment applications
including:
Voice Applications such as PBX-to-PBX connections, PBX-to-remote station
connections; private line automatic ringdown; manual ringdown and voice compression,
including fax modem support.
Data Applications, such as leased lines; multi-drop data bridging, and data broadcast
services.
Video Applications, such as video conferencing, telemedicine, distance learning and video
broadcasting.
IP Applications, such as remote access, Internet access and LAN interconnect.
Interworking Applications, such as X.25, frame relay and ATM access, concentration,
interworking and encapsulation.
Contact:
Jim Byrnes Walt Gasior
908-221-7876 (office) 973-443-2267 (office)
908-689-6040 (home) 908-769-6195 (home)
jbyrnes@att.com wgasior@att.com
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