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To: pat mudge who wrote (4464)	5/10/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: Jeffrey L. Henken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

AT&T Promises Bandwidth Changes On The Fly (05/07/98; 1:49 p.m. ET) By Mary E. Thyfault, InformationWeek techweb.com AT&T is rolling out an integrated network service that provides corporations with a single connection into the AT&T network for leased private line, frame relay, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) services. The new service -- AT&T Managed Bandwidth Service -- will let users change the amount of bandwidth allocated to applications on the fly. In the past, such changes took 45 days. "Corporations will be able to modify the bandwidth that they are using on a more flexible basis," says William Callahan director of Managed Network Services for AT&T, which made the announcement Wednesday at the NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas. "Wow," said Christopher Nicoll, an analyst with Current Analysis in Sterling, Va. "This will be particularly appealing in industries like retail, where they want to crank up their the bandwidth for certain applications between September and January." Customers will also be able to see an integrated network management view of their network services. IP virtual private network services are scheduled for availability in the fourth quarter. AT&T is offering the service to five customers Thursday, and will make it generally available this summer. The company says it has 25 customers who are ready to buy the service. Callahan said that within a year, 25 percent of AT&T's customer base will subscribe to the service, and within five years, 50 percent of customers will subscribe. Pricing will vary depending on customer requirements, but AT&T's goal is to make the offering less expensive than customers pulling all the services together on their own. AT&T is using Newbridge Networks premises equipment to integrate the services at the customer sites. Regards, Jeff