Canadian Businesses To Benefit From AT&T’S $1 Billion Investment In Global Network, Services In 2009

AT&T Accelerating Delivery and Management of On-Demand Network Applications

DALLAS, February 23, 2009 - AT&T ^* today announced plans to invest approximately $1 billion in 2009 to continue building out its global network, while driving new services and network-based applications to businesses including some of the largest multinational corporations in Canada.

Spurred by continued demand for business applications made possible by the proliferation of high speed communication networks and mobile devices worldwide, the investment will focus on both infrastructure, services and support.

AT&T’s operations in Canada will see a number of enhancements to network services and applications as part of the global initiative including new enhancements and additions to AT&T’s virtual private network portfolio, wide area network (WAN), telepresence, unified communications, hosting, applications performance, and digital media solutions.

More specifically, AT&T OPT-E-WAN, a global virtual private local area network service (VPLS) will be available in Canada. OPT-E-WAN enables businesses to link multiple locations – whether across town or around the world – with all the ease and efficiency of a point-to-point Ethernet connection.

David Denault, General Manager of AT&T Global Services Canada welcomed today’s announcement. “AT&T continues to make investments to ensure that it has both the global reach and depth in key markets around the world, including Canada. We are pleased to provide our local customers with a new level of choices for establishing virtual LAN or WAN connections, as well as complementing their existing VPN infrastructure.”

In addition to the data centre hosting capacity in Toronto, AT&T is increasing capacity in Atlanta, Annapolis and the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area in the United States, as well as in Hong Kong, Tokyo and the United Kingdom globally. Today, AT&T manages data centres with more than 2.6 million square feet of secure hosting capacity in 10 countries.

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