AT&T Announces New Contract with The Metropolitan Educational Council of Ohio; Customized Ethernet Services Provide Unified Network for 160 Schools and Related Agencies.COLUMBUS, Ohio Columbus is the capital and the largest city of the American state of Ohio. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : T) today announced a new contract with the Metropolitan Educational Council (MEC MEC Ministério da Educação (Ministry of Education) MEC Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain: Ministry for Education and Science) MEC Mountain Equipment Co-Op ), a consortium of school districts, libraries and related agencies in the greater central Ohio area. Under the terms of the six-year contract, AT&T will deliver a Customized Switched Metro Ethernet A metropolitan area network (MAN) that uses a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) backbone rather than SONET/SDH links. Ethernet offers a more economical alternative. In a Metro Ethernet network, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) may be deployed to provide quality of service (QoS). (CSME CSME CARICOM Single Market and Economy CSME Caribbean Single Market and Economy CSME Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering CSME Clinically Significant Macular Edema CSME Control Site Multiplexer and Exchange CSME CSIRO Sustainable Materials Engineering ) service that will connect 160 schools and related agencies to a single network for increased security and reliability. The new network will provide expanded bandwidth to support additional educational applications, such as video distance learning. Additionally, the network will allow for secure transmission of detailed student records through a unified process The Unified Software Development Process or Unified Process is a popular iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the Unified Process is the Rational Unified Process or RUP. for data transfer. With these advanced applications, MEC will have the ability to deliver reliable services to all of its schools, libraries and related educational facilities for an enhanced learning environment. The CSME solution will also provide disaster-recovery services for increased security and redundancy of the network. This solution aligns with AT&T's convergence strategy, which will enable MEC and its facilities to support bandwidth-intensive applications at faster Internet connection speeds through a converged network The integration of the telephone system with IP-based data networks. See softswitch. (networking) converged network - A single network that can carry voice, video and data. infrastructure. AT&T is the primary provider of voice and data services for MEC. "We required a provider capable of seamlessly expanding our bandwidth to help meet the networking needs of our 160 facilities," said Greg Spencer, director of Data Processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a , Metropolitan Educational Council. "Using AT&T's CSME solution, we can allow our business needs, not our network limitations, to drive our IT strategy." About the Metropolitan Educational Council The Metropolitan Educational Council (MEC) is a consortium of school districts and related agencies in the greater central Ohio area. The primary mission of the council is to contribute to the educational services made available to the youth and adults by the cooperative action of the membership. MEC currently has 160 member schools, libraries, and related agencies. 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. 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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