AT&T Solutions Networking Milestones Include $1.1 Billion of New Business In Current Quarter.FLORHAM PARK, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1998--AT&T Solutions, the networking professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. arm of AT&T based here, has achieved remarkable growth in only three years of operation. Through its outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. , consulting/networking integration and multimedia call center practices, AT&T Solutions provides linked professional services and seamless solutions that maximize the competitive advantage of networking-based electronic commerce applications. The unit uses state-of-the-art tools to operate and manage voice, data, video and internet/intranet services, including local and wide area networks, PBXs, voice-processing systems and voice and data terminals. Growth milestones include: -- Since February 1995, when the business was founded, AT&T Solutions has amassed a backlog Backlog The total value of sales orders waiting to be fulfilled. Notes: This figure is used mainly in the manufacturing industry. Increases or decreases in a company's backlog indicate the future direction of sales and earnings. of long-term networking business valued at more than $5 billion. -- In the first quarter of 1998, AT&T Solutions has signed outsourcing services contracts worth more than $1 billion in new long-term business. -- More than 200 global clients have selected AT&T Solutions as their strategic technology ally to maintain their worldwide networking platforms. -- In addition to its newest clients - Citibank and McGraw-Hill - AT&T Solutions clients include Tectron; J.P. Morgan; Wells Fargo; Chase Manhattan; 1-800-FLOWERS; Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. ; MasterCard International and United Healthcare. -- AT&T Solutions has more than 8,500 employees worldwide. -- The unit manages its clients' mission-critical global networking operations from a control center in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and - as a result of huge growth - has added state-of-the-art networking-management centers in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, India, Singapore and China. -- Since winning the outsourcing contract to run AT&T's own information technology capabilities in 1997, AT&T Solutions manages more than 11,000 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. of processing capacity; more than 5,000 UNIX servers A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. and 120,000 desktop computers; more than 130 million megabytes of networking traffic; more than 200,000 premises voice ports, and more than 5 billion minutes of inbound in·bound 1 adj. Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic. Adj. 1. inbound and outbound out·bound adj. Outward bound; headed away: outbound trains. Adj. 1. outbound - that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships" network minutes. CONTACT: AT&T Solutions Jim Byrnes Jim Byrnes may refer to:
Walt Gasior 908/221-7876 (office) 973/443-2267 (office) 908/689-6040 (home) 908/769-6195 (home) jbyrnes@att.com wgasior@att.com |
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