AT&T Announces New Contract with Oakland Community College; Services Will Connect Multiple Campuses in Oakland County, Michigan.BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : T) today announced a new contract with Oakland Community College Oakland Community College (OCC) is a community college established June 8 1964 in Oakland County, Michigan. It opened September 1965 with two campuses - Highland Lakes, a renovated hospital in Union Lake, and Auburn Hills, a former Army Nike missile site in Auburn Hills. (OCC OCC See: Options Clearing Corporation OCC See Options Clearing Corporation (OCC). ), the largest community college in the state of Michigan, located in Oakland County. Under terms of the three-year contract, AT&T Michigan will provide Opt-E-MAN(R), a public switched Ethernet An Ethernet network that is controlled by a switch instead of a shared hub. The switch cross connects all clients, servers and network devices, giving each sending-receiving pair the full rated transmission speed. solution that will connect the college's five campuses by linking each location's local area network (LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. ). The high-bandwidth networking solution will securely support OCC's data transmission for an optimized application infrastructure and improved communications across its campuses, which are located throughout metropolitan Detroit's northern suburbs. OCC will have the ability to instantaneously share data and access bandwidth-intensive applications through this cost-effective optical solution. AT&T will also provide toll-free, local and long distance voice services to all of OCC's campuses. "We needed a quick and more cost-effective way to handle the growing data flow across our locations," said Clarence E. Brantley, vice chancellor vice chancellor n. Abbr. VC 1. A deputy or an assistant chancellor in a university. 2. A deputy to or a substitute for a head of state or an official bearing the title chancellor. 3. of administrative services for Oakland Community College. "The solutions provided by AT&T will equip us with the tools needed to expand our bandwidth and increase productivity among faculty and staff to better serve our students," said Andrew R. Hillberry, chief information officer, Oakland Community College. "In addition, this new technology provides a more robust network, which positions OCC to provide information technology continuity for our students and faculty," Hillberry noted. "We're very pleased to provide our optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. services to Oakland Community College," said Vicki Jones, president-Business Communications Services-Midwest, AT&T Global Services, Inc. "Our relationship with the college further demonstrates our ability and dedication to providing reliable, cost-effective services to our nation's academic communities." About Oakland Community College Located in high-tech Oakland County, Oakland Community College is the largest community college in the state of Michigan. OCC enrolls 74,000 degree and non-degree seeking students annually and is one of the nation's largest community colleges. For more information, visit www.oaklandcc.edu. About the New AT&T AT&T Inc. is one of the world's largest telecommunications holding companies and is the largest in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Operating globally under the AT&T brand, AT&T companies are recognized as the leading worldwide providers of IP-based communications services to business and as leading U.S. providers of high-speed DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary Internet, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services. AT&T Inc. holds a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which is the No. 1 U.S. wireless services provider with more than 54 million wireless customers. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and AT&T products and services is available at www.TheNewATT.com. (C) 2006 AT&T Knowledge Ventures. All rights reserved. Subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. provide products and services under the AT&T brand. |
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