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Article: AT&T wins big with veterans agency; Department of Veterans Affairs awards $17.2 million contract for MPLS VPN services to AT&T.(multiprotocol label switching virtual private networks)
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- Network World
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- January 11, 2007
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Byline: Carolyn Duffy Marsan
AT&T is claiming its first big victory in the U.S. federal market since its merger with SBC, with this week's announcement
of a three-year, $17.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
AT&T will connect 48 Veterans Affairs hospitals and administrative offices to its MPLS Private Network Transport Service.
The company says its network is the nation's highest-bandwidth, all-MPLS network and can support 40Gbps.
The pre-merger AT&T did little business with Veterans Affairs before this award, but SBC provided customer premises equipment,
local access and optical services to ...