AT&T, EMBRATEL first to announce frame-to-frame connectivity from U.S. to South America.BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 1995--AT&T and Empresa Brasileira De Telecomunicacoes S.A. (EMBRATEL) of Brazil today became the first telecommunications carriers to offer frame-to-frame connectivity between the U.S. and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . This agreement is a continuation of AT&T's global strategy to provide service to countries that are key to customers' business needs. Customers also have frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. access to 26 additional countries that are served by WorldSource(sm) Frame Relay Service. WorldSource is a primary strategy for AT&T to provide global, seamless end-to-end services to multinational customers. Dow Chemical and AlliedSignal are the first customers to trial the frame-relay service between the U.S. and Brazil. The service is generally available now, but initially will be limited between any point in the U.S. to the metropolitan areas of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, city, Brazil Rio de Janeiro (rē`ō də zhänā`rō, Port. rē`  thĭ zhənĕē`r and Sco Paulo. EMBRATEL plans additional intra-country frame relay connectivity that would allow AT&T to extend this service to more customers with data transport needs to Brazil. EMBRATEL will offer intra-country frame relay service in the first quarter of 1996. "A growing number of U.S.-based multinational companies are setting up operations in South America to take advantage of a skilled labor force and attractive commerce routes to the U.S.," said Joseph Crupi, AT&T's global business multimedia services vice president. "We're seeing a demand for frame-relay connectivity between the U.S. and that region, particularly Brazil, which, in our experience, is a leading hub for north-south communications traffic." Businesses with local-area networking data connectivity needs between the U.S. and South America currently depend on satellite or X.25 packet switching A network technology that breaks up a message into small packets for transmission. Unlike circuit switching, which requires the establishment of a dedicated point-to-point connection, each packet in a packet-switched network contains a destination address. sevices. Now businesses have the option to select AT&T's frame-relay service for cost-effective data transfer that requires error-free "bursting" capability at high speed. By December 1995, EMBRATEL said it will offer frame-relay service to other South American countries List of American countries Nations:
With the addition of frame-relay connectivity to Brazil through EMBRATEL, AT&T's frame-relay service now reaches 27 countries. It will be available in 30 countries by year-end. AT&T is committed to providing world-wide connectivity for customers' growing global communications needs and said it expects demand for global connectivity to continue to increase over the next few years. AT&T's InterSpan(r) Frame Relay service is part of the InterSpan family of data services that includes Asynchronous Transfer Mode See ATM. (communications) Asynchronous Transfer Mode - (ATM, or "fast packet") A method for the dynamic allocation of bandwidth using a fixed-size packet (called a cell). See also ATM Forum, Wideband ATM. ATM acronyms. Indiana acronyms. (ATM), and the Information Access Service (IAS See iPlanet Application Server. 1. (computer) IAS - The first modern computer. It had main registers, processing circuits, information paths within the central processing unit, and used Von Neumann's fetch-execute cycle. ). For more detailed information on these or other data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. services, customers may call 1-800-248-3632. CONTACT: Dianne Bernez - AT&T Fabio Steinberg - AT&T Brazil (908) 658-8794 (work) 55-11-524-4489 (work) (908) 464-6142 (home) Christine Corliss - AT&T Josias Mattos - EMBRATEL (908) 221-2935 (work) 55-21-519-7066 (work) (201) 266-7769 (home) REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 212-575-8822 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-236-4266 or 80 |
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