AT&T
Expands in Europe, Asia Pac with VPLS
AT&T
has announced expanded global reach for AT&T's Ethernet portfolio by
offering a virtual private local area network service (VPLS) in 14
countries in Europe and Asia Pacific. It’ll enable businesses to link
multiple locations with a flat Ethernet wide area network that can be
extended globally.
Called
OPT-E-WAN, AT&T's VPLS service is now available in a total of 15
countries: United States; Germany, United Kingdom, Belgium, France,
Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Switzerland in Europe;
and Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore and Japan in Asia Pacific.
The
service uses the same scalable Ethernet interfaces. So global businesses
can have flexibility to mix and match bandwidth and security among
locations. This will allow network managers to assign network resources
across the virtual local area networks (LANs).
According to AT&T, the demand for Ethernet services worldwide continues
to expand. This growth is being driven by the need that businesses of
all sizes have for affordable and easy-to-manage bandwidth to support
next-generation enterprise applications including disaster recovery,
storage, and converged voice and video.
"OPT-E-WAN provides global users with a new level of choices for
establishing virtual LAN or WAN connections, as well as complementing
their existing VPN infrastructure. Customers are able to add OPT-E-WAN
connectivity to support their emerging high bandwidth applications,"
said Sanford Brown, vice president, AT&T Connectivity and Metro Network
Services.
Recently, AT&T had announced its first super
Internet Data Centre in Asia to be set
up in Singapore. The data centre will deliver AT&T Synaptic Hosting –
next-generation utility computing services to businesses in the region.
The move is part of AT&T's $1 billion planned global network investment
in 2008 to increase its global data centre hosting capacity.
