AT&T Secures New Contract with Shawnee Public Schools; Oklahoma School District Gets Connected With New Data Networking Solution.SHAWNEE, Okla. -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :T) today announced a new contract to provide data and networking services to Shawnee Public Schools, a public school district serving Shawnee, Okla., with one early childhood center, four elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and one alternative school. Under the terms of the five-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 ) and dedicated Internet access See how to access the Internet. (DIA) to each of the eight schools in the Shawnee district. These services will connect the schools to a single, reliable network and will provide high speed Internet access with an expanded bandwidth to support the district's educational and administrative programs, as required by the state of Oklahoma. This solution also aligns with AT&T's convergence strategy, which will enable Shawnee students and faculty to enjoy faster Internet connection speeds with increased security and reliability through the 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 districtwide primary service provider of data, network and voice services to the Shawnee school district. "In order to meet state requirements and to support our bandwidth-intensive applications, we needed a provider with the capability to deliver a highly reliable solution at a cost-effective rate," said Lynda Nichol, director of Technology and Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Shawnee Public Schools. "We succeeded in finding this with AT&T." About Shawnee Public Schools Shawnee Public Schools is a public school district serving the Shawnee, Okla.-area with one early childhood center, four elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, and one alternative school. For more information, visit http://www.shawnee.k12.ok.us/. 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. For more information and detailed disclaimer information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at www.sbc.com/news_room. |
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