Overview

By combining the power of two industry leaders, AT&T and Cisco offer customers the opportunity to source their mission-critical applications over proven, reliable networks. Making the transition to a converged voice and data network can deliver powerful productivity and cost saving benefits to your enterprise.

Customer Solution

Challenge:

A large Financial institution needed to reduce cost and complexity by consolidating disparate networks serving business units around the world.

Solution:

AT&T proposed an MPLS-based virtual private network (VPN) that offers:

• Converged network - integrated 39 locations globally to a single network
• Secure, reliable network performance globally
• Simplified network management from the desktop using web-based tools
• Integration of remote locations to the network and applications

Benefits:

Customer has reduced costs, lowered complexity, and increased efficiency while providing a secure global networking environment for its operating units.

AT&T and Cisco Advantage

The combined expertise of AT&T and Cisco offers you the benefit of a single point of contact for migrating to IP Telephony technology and the required underlying robust secure LAN infrastructure.

Leveraging AT&T's strength in delivering IP solutions and managing converged voice and data networks along with Cisco's experience as a worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, AT&T and Cisco are delivering a complete managed solution from the WAN to the IP phone on the desktop.

Benefits:

• Single point of contact for end-to-end IP Telephony design, installation and performance
• Leverage combined competency of two leaders in IP Telephony and improve operation efficiency - quickly perform maintenance tasks such as moves, adds or changes with minimal intervention
• Improve competitive stance by boosting network efficiency and reducing related equipment, facility and staffing expenses
• Seamless integration to optimize your current infrastructure investment with flexibility for growth
• Global reach with global support
• High availability via proactive, around-the-clock, network monitoring and fault isolation/resolution
• Unmatched performance, reliability and quality with Service Level Agreements