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AT&T Announces New Investment In Data Centres And Network Globally AT&T has announced that it intends to invest USD 1
billion during 2008 in expanding its global network and Data Centre
services. The main elements of the expansion include new submarine fibre-optic
cable capacity from the US to Japan and Asia with investments in South
East Asia and Australia with other routes connecting the Caribbean,
India and the Middle East. Additionally new core MPLS routers will be
deployed in Europe, Asia and the US. Additionally new IP-based access
nodes will be deployed in Paris and Moscow, Kuwait, New Delhi, Kolkata,
Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Guatemala. The company will augment the
new MPLS access nodes with network to network connections to extend
its network into India, Australia, South America and Eastern Europe
(including Russia, Kyrgystan, Belarus and Mongolia). AT&T will also
roll out an Ethernet network as part of a global virtual private local
area network solution in the US, Europe and the Asia Pacific. In 2008
AT&T will make its Ethernet service available in 14 cities. These
include Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Dublin,
Milan, Madrid and Zurich in Europe, and Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney
and Tokyo in the Asia Pacific. By the end of 2008 AT&T predicts
that it will have an Ethernet footprint in 39 countries. DSL services
will be introduced as a network access method in China, Finland, Norway
and Saudi Arabia – making 21 countries in all by the end of the
year. Data Centre and hosting capacity will be increased by an additional
180,000 square feet by the middle of 2009 using the 38 Data Centres
already established. Data Centres that will be expanded include Singapore,
Amsterdam, Boston and Dallas.
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