About Our Customer

Established in 1959, National Semiconductor is a world-leading supplier of analog-based semiconductor products, including stand-alone devices and subsystems in the areas of power management, imaging, display drivers, audio, amplifiers and data conversion. With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, it reported sales of US$1.67 billion for the fiscal year in 2003. National Semiconductor employs 9, 200 persons worldwide and has 5 manufacturing sites in the US, Scotland, Malaysia and Singapore. National Semiconductor also has 14 regional design centers in Europe and Asia Pacific in addition to the 16 based in the US.

Customer Situation

National Semiconductor uses highly sophisticated software tools to develop new chip layouts but to keep costs low must share the licenses for these as widely as possible. National Semiconductor required a network that linked its central license servers and provided the the company's worldwide design centers with a reliable, cost-effective, real-time connection across the Asia Pacific, Europe and the US.

Our Solution

AT&T connected the National Semiconductor headquarters in the US with 17 sites in Western Europe using AT&T VPN Tunneling Services. In response to its' business and network expansion in China, AT&T connected National Semiconductor's US and China sites with the International End-to-End ATM Service. In addition, to ensure a secure transmission of mission critical data and increase the productivity of its global network, separate local Internet access was provided by Unisiti for National Semiconductor's plant in Suzhou and Shanghai branch office. Unisiti is a joint venture between AT&T, Shanghai Telecom and Shanghai Information Investment.

The Results

Fully managed and integrated, the AT&T solution supports National Semiconductor's networking needs globally, while also providing the flexibility to meet future demands of migration and network evolution.

National Semiconductor has achieved reduced cost of networking through inmproved productivity supporting business critical applications.