Business Flows at Waterworks Inc. with Qwest's High-Performance Network Solutions.DENVER -- Qwest Communications
See: New York Stock Exchange : Q) today announced it has signed a two-year agreement with Waterworks waterworks: see water supply. Inc. to provide Qwest iQ Networking services as well as high-speed data and voice solutions. Based in Danbury, Conn., Waterworks designs and sells luxury bathroom, kitchen and home furnishings and accessories with 38 showroom locations across the country. A customer since 2003, Waterworks selected iQ Networking services because of Qwest's commitment to service excellence and its ability to network Waterworks' business locations with multi-protocol label switching (networking) label switching - A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. (MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. ). Using a combination of Qwest iQ Networking[R] Private Port, DS1 and DS3 technology, Qwest designed a comprehensive solution that will connect Waterworks' corporate offices in 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 and Connecticut to its showroom locations across 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. . "Because of our existing relationship, we are confident in Qwest's ability to deliver solutions that improve how our business runs," said Juan Cardona, Waterworks senior systems engineer. "Qwest offers one of the most advanced networks available, with best-in-class service level agreements and some of the highest customer access speeds in the industry today." "As a company evolves, Qwest has the technology solutions to evolve with them," said Tom Richards Tom Richards may refer to:
Qwest's business market group serves hundreds of thousands of business, and federal and state government customers coast-to-coast over Qwest's nationwide fiber-optic network. Qwest iQ Networking is a complete converged networking 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. service for enterprise business and government customers to give them power to MPLS technology coupled with industry-leading service level agreements. For more information about Qwest's enterprise services, please visit http://www.qwest.com/largebusiness. About Qwest Qwest offers a unique and powerful combination of managed voice and data solutions for businesses, government agencies and consumers - locally and throughout the country. Customers coast to coast are turning to Qwest's industry-leading national fiber optic network and its Spirit of Service for quality products and superior customer experience. Qwest is a participant in Networx, the largest communications services contract in the world, to provide leading-edge voice, data and video services. For more information on Qwest, and its various operating subsidiaries, please go to www.qwest.com. For information about the products and services Qwest is offering in the Networx contract, visit www.gsanetworx.com. The Qwest logo is a registered trademark of Qwest Communications International Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. |
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