AT&T Overview

By integrating their wired and wireless Internet Protocol (IP) networks, they will enable new applications that converge voice, data and video for their business customers over one of the world's most advanced IP networks.

Virtually every business today depends on the performance of its underlying network. That's why AT&T has invested billions to create the world's leading IP network and to back it with the reliability, security and performance measures that customers demand.

They will continue to set the standard for helping their customers transition from legacy technologies to IP-enabled voice, data and video solutions. Enhanced employee productivity, new operational efficiencies, increased network reliability and security and lower network costs — these are just some of the significant advantages AT&T’s IP-based networks can deliver to businesses. AT&T’s network also offers access to a full suite of applications, such as Virtual Private Networking (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP), state-of-the-art hosting capabilities and advanced messaging and conferencing.

AT&T has an unsurpassed set of networking resources and assets that help customers deliver and share information seamlessly, including their global backbone, local high-bandwidth connections and wireless networks. They offer businesses a single source of sophisticated communications with unprecedented reach, including local, national and global along with both wireline and wireless access — designed and managed to their specifications.

They back their business solutions with an array of professional consulting and management services for network planning, design, deployment, security and ongoing management.

Their network enables customers large and small and across the industry spectrum — from enterprise and government to healthcare, education, manufacturing, etc. — to take advantage of:

• Dense local access with flexible tools and applications for ordering, maintenance and trouble-reporting.
• A robust, competitively priced suite of end-to-end solutions available regionally, nationally and globally.
• World-class research and development operations.
• An industry-leading, streamlined, personalized customer experience backed by knowledgeable service professionals.

Quick Facts:

• AT&T is an industry leader in serving large business customers, serving millions of businesses (including all of the Fortune 1000) on six continents.
• They have one of the world's most advanced and powerful global backbone networks, which carries 16.5 petabytes of data traffic on an average business day.
• They offer Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based services available to 143 countries and over 4,000+ service nodes.
• They manage close to 238,000 MPLS customer ports.
• Their network includes 38 Internet data centers on four continents across the globe.
• The AT&T global network includes nearly 879,000 worldwide fiber route miles.
• They are positioned in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant in the Asia/Pacific Network Service Providers Magic Quadrant (February 2008).
• For the third consecutive year, they received the 2007 North American Market Leadership Award in Carrier Ethernet services from Frost & Sullivan. (November 2007)
• They received the Government Vertical Market Penetration Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan. (November 2007)
• Their eSales and Service organization won a Stevie Award for "Best Sales Organization" at the 2007 International Business Awards. (September 2007)
• They are positioned in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers. (August 2007)
• They are positioned in Gartner's Leaders Quadrant in the Managed Security Service Provider Magic Quadrant. (August 2007)
• They received the Education Market Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan. (July 2007)
• Their Ethernet Services received the "Most Innovative Carrier Ethernet Service" award from New Paradigm Resources Group and Telephony Magazine. (July 2007)
• Forrester Research recognized us as a Leader in Global WAN Services. (June 2007)