AT&T to scale-up network capacity in APAC

BANGALORE, INDIA: AT&T plans to deploy, upgrade and add diverse IPv6-capable MPLS nodes to support Layer 3 VPN and global managed Internet services, including gigabit Ethernet customer access across multiple locations in Europe, Asia Pac., including Australia, China, India, Japan, etc.

This is a part of the company's plans to invest $1 billion in 2010 in network capabilities, solutions, mobility and cloud services for businesses globally.

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AT&T will enhance its current portfolio of flexible collaboration services and applications such as managed hosting, cloud-based services, telepresence, unified communications, digital media solutions and security. 

It will also continue its investment in LTE, and Wi-Fi-based applications to support the dramatic increase in demand for mobile broadband-based services.

AT&T also plans to increase broadband speeds up to 24 Mbps downstream where possible in more than 120 markets across AT&T’s 22-state US footprint.

Ron Spears, president and CEO, AT&T Business Solutions. “IP-based solutions and applications have become ever more important to companies aiming to take their productivity to a new level while transforming their operations to adapt to their customers’ changing needs.”

AT&T is capitalizing on the ongoing shift in network traffic from voice to data and video, and more importantly to IP-based data and video, as customers migrate from legacy data networks to MPLS-based virtual private networks and managed applications.

Additional sub sea cable capacity to ensure diversity and resilience including, over 350G of new capacity from the US to and within Asia Pacific

Add cloud enablers to AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service that serve as a gateway between customers’ storage systems and AT&T’s cloud.

Install additional telepresence rooms in AT&T offices in, Europe, Asia Pac, including Singapore, Malaysia, and Bangalore and Hinjewadi in India.

AT&T also plans to levearage its network expansion to improve capacity and diversity, and offer services in new markets, expanding the global OPT-E-WAN service footprint from 31 countries to 37 countries.

It will deploy IPv6 capable MPLS core routers in Hawaii and Guam to provide an interconnection point for Transpacific cables between the U.S., Australia, Singapore, China and Japan to improve resiliency and performance in the Asia Pacific network.