AT&T announced that CB Richard Ellis Group (CBRE) has signed a three-year contract with AT&T to upgrade its global voice and data wireline networks.
Under terms of the agreement, AT&T will provide CB Richard Ellis with a complete suite of communications services including a new Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN), AT&T Managed Internet Service (MIS) and OneNet service, which includes local and long distance voice services. In addition to the networking service upgrade, CBRE also signed a two-year contract for wireless voice and data services and renewed a two-year hosting contract.
According to the company, AT&T will consolidate CBRE’s voice and data wireline networks and upgrade its frame relay network to a managed IP VPN. AT&T IP VPN is built on an architecture that enables the merging of different types of traffic, such as voice and data, over one network. AT&T enables CBRE to prioritize mission-critical information. For example, it allows CBRE to give priority to voice over e-mail so traffic does not get interrupted.
Earlier AT&T announced a five-year contract with the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) worth a projected $346 million to provide managed Wide Area Network (WAN), Voice, and Local Area Network (LAN) services across state government agencies.
The deployment of network services will establish a good network for Georgia’s government operations and standardized service levels across the state. The service will also enable the state to leverage AT&T’s unified network to convert voice services to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).
