Detroit Tigers Ink Major League Bandwidth Contract with AT&T

By Johanne Torres

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

AT&T (News - Alert) has inked a new contract the Detroit Tigers to increase the major league baseball team’s network bandwidth in Comerica Park.

The new, three-year contract called for AT&T to provide the Detroit Tigers with a Managed Internet Service (MIS) solution via a "burstable" DS3 connection in just one week after the contract was signed and in time for the ALCS and World Series games.

According to AT&T, the team opted for its MIS solution for support of advanced video and data communications, such as media connectivity, file transfers and Web-browsing at Comerica Park.

“We had a fantastic season this year, and as a result, we knew our network would need additional bandwidth to support the influx of data traffic,” said Scott Wruble, manager of IT for the Detroit Tigers in a statement released on Wednesday. “Thanks to AT&T, we were able to accommodate the spike in traffic we received rather quickly and without worrying over network outages or slower Internet speeds. AT&T provided a solution capable of meeting all of our networking needs.”

The news follows AT&T Government Solutions’ announcement yesterday about it inking another three-year contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a single backbone Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The agency’s order is reportedly valued in $17.2 million.

The move will supply additional bandwidth to the agency's current network via the migration of approximately 48 distribution and core layer sites to the AT&T MPLS Private Network Transport Service.

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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page.