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Charrette Taps AT&T for Voice and DataTMCnet Contributing Editor AT&T has been selected to offer voice and data services to Cambridge, Mass.-based imaging products provider Charrette. The network will hook up the company's 400 employees who work in numerous locations around the nation. This new, three-year contract will extend AT&T's long-standing relationship with Charrette.
The new contract calls for AT&T (News - Alert) to converge Charrette's voice and data onto a single Enhanced Virtual Private Network (EVPN). Using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) technology, AT&T's network integrates the company's 18 corporate locations under a single IP-based architecture. With a single IP-based architecture in place, Charrette will be able to receive improved employee-to-employee communications nationwide, enhanced ease of use and increased network security. Charrette will also have the opportunity to integrate new technologies in the future such as VoIP.
"We have already started to see a significant increase in productivity because of the inherent ease-of-use of AT&T's solutions," said John Piasecki, Charrette's director of information technology. "We were also very pleased with the implementation process as well as the fact that the out-of-the-box AT&T technology solution provides us with all-important redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities."
AT&T made news last week when it announced on Thursday that it inked a two-year networking contract with Australia-based First Data International to provide a new MPLS-based virtual private network (VPN) in Southeast Asia.
The new network would connect First Data's offices in Sydney, Hong Kong, and its newly opened Singapore locale. First Data provides a suite of electronic payment processing services comprised of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) switching, device driving, credit card, and merchant account processing services.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne Torres' columnist page.
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