AT&T today unveiled new services that it says will give the largest global companies and government agencies new options for eliminating reliance on other local telephone companies for last-mile connections. The company also today enhanced its Ethernet services portfolio.
The company says its new AT&T High Performance Access Service (HiPAS) is the first service in the industry offering large enterprise customers a standard commitment for service availability and reliability from the core network all the way to the customer premises. The service targets high-end customers using OC3 to OC192 connections. “We’ve taken our core expertise of integrated networking and extended it to the network’s edge, where businesses’ vulnerabilities are the greatest and where the network infrastructure and systems to support companies’ needs have been, until now, the weakest,” says Barbara Peda, senior vice president of product management and product marketing at AT&T Business. “With our integrated networking solutions, businesses no longer have to patch together disparate services from multiple providers.
“Customers have told us that last-mile access is critical to their business applications, yet service has historically been unreliable,” Peda adds. “AT&T now offers businesses and government agencies secure service with 99.999 percent network reliability guaranteed through around-the-clock monitoring, alternate site back-up and an automated self-healing provision.”
AT&T offers business local service in the 67 metropolitan areas where 70 percent of the nation’s business customers are located. The company says it is now aggressively leveraging its combined local presence and networking expertise to deliver fully integrated, end-to-end networking solutions to the largest companies - the cornerstone of AT&T Chairman and CEO Dave Dorman’s business strategy.
AT&T also today announced enhancements to its Ethernet services portfolio, AT&T Ethernet Private Line Service - Metropolitan Area Network, and Ethernet capability for two new HiPAS options that are called AT&T ACCU-Ring Network Service and AT&T Dedicated Entrance Facility.
