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Succeeding in today’s collaborative, work-anywhere world requires the power of a unified, IP-based MPLS virtual private network (VPN). With it, you can create a rich, electronic community that fosters resource-sharing among employees, partners and customers, which is the way business gets done in today’s dynamic, 24/7 global economy.

High-speed converged networks:

Support the latest business application services
Let remote offices function like headquarters locations
Enable meaningful collaboration among workers
Integrate communications, sustain operations and boost productivity

Transform your business with an MPLS VPN that opens the door to improved productivity, maximized efficiency and new applications.

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Move Ahead to Get Ahead

Running separate networks for voice and data means you might miss valuable opportunities that new business communities create. Instead of leaving network access fractured and applications isolated, integrate your networks with an MPLS VPN to enable meaningful, secure connections that can sharpen your business edge.

Moving to an MPLS VPN – and ancillary IP network services such as Ethernet and Internet VPN services – empowers your employees with high-performance and advanced communication capabilities available virtually anytime, anywhere. Evolve your network and improve the way your people communicate and collaborate.

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With your MPLS VPN network in place, make the most of it to reap the greatest return on your investment. Use advanced application services that range from cloud to unified communications to remote access to network security to full infrastructure management. All to kick up your competitive edge.

Network Transformation:
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Carlson Wagonlit's Remote Connections Make for Satisfied Employees and Customers

Transform Your Network, Transform Your Business

Reduce the complexity of disparate networks and prepare for the future of integrated wired and wireless networks and public/private applications.

Find out more about the solutions that can help you transform your network and the business that runs on it:

Remodeling The Network

May 17, 2013
Sybil Fitzpatrick

So, let me share with you a little about my house. I live in California and bought near the top of the real estate market. I have a small, charming 1950s colonial in a nice neighborhood. But like many older homes, I got other things that I didn’t want, such as a pink kitchen. I’m not joking. The sink, floor, walls and the countertops were pink. Not my idea of House Beautiful. The floors were pink striped linoleum. The walls had square...

Like Building a Home: Get the Right Partner for Managed Hosting

April 22, 2013
Steve Caniano

I’m delighted to report that Gartner Inc. has again, for the seventh report in a row, named AT&T as a ‘Leader’ in its latest Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, North America. As I considered the best way to explain what this means to our current and potential customers, this analogy came to mind:...

So, I Use COS 1 for My Voice Services Over My MPLS VPN

April 2, 2013
Lon Hickman

The coming decade will see enterprises employ a wide range of commercial software, cloud, and mobile IP-based applications. This deployment will raise the importance of having robust WAN IP-connectivity solutions that include the use of more on-demand network resources....

Taking VPN To The Cloud

March 28, 2013
ATT

For enterprise IT leaders, keeping pace with ever-increasing demands for new applications and greater data bandwidth is an ongoing struggle. Adding a layer of complexity to their task is the fact that many are forced to make the necessary moves with fewer resources in place to deploy new applications and networks. Many enterprises are finding their solution in MPLS-enabled VPNs that are robust and flexible enough to adapt to new...

Can Your VPN Perform These 3 Tricks?

March 19, 2013
Sander Biehn

Yahoo sure has been in the headlines lately. The interesting part of the story for me has been the spotlight on extracting worker productivity from the VPN logs. For a great synopsis and commentary, check out InfoWorld's blog by Ted Samson. Ted makes some great points about the dangers of using a single set of analytics to derive employee value. For example, not all work functions require constant VPN consumption. On the other end of the...

Armstrong Counts on Reliable Networking for High Tech Coal Mining

March 15, 2013
ATT

Read this case study to learn how Armstrong Coal uses a converged IP VPN network to boost its operations efficiencies and productivity while providing the safest possible working environment and meeting state, federal and industry regulations....

Making Peace With All That Data

February 18, 2013
Dave Johnson

Opening in Boston in April, To the Brink – an exhibit commemorating the Cuban Missile Crisis – will be the largest new exhibit hosted by the Kennedy Library in more than 10 years. As an AT&T employee, I wonder if visitors to the exhibit will be aware that there is a deeper connection between the company and this landmark event in history. Back in 1962,...

Raising the Bar On Cloud: The Network Matters

February 11, 2013
Shelley OBrien

Ironman triathletes are amazing to me. I cannot imagine running a full marathon after swimming 2.4 miles and biking 112. But having run a half marathon last year, I can see how people look for the next challenge, to push themselves to the next level and raise the bar on what’s already been done. I’m fairly new to the world of cloud, but it seems more and more businesses are...

How To Build A Better Mousetrap

February 7, 2013
Sara Vincent

Putting together a jigsaw puzzle is an act of patience, perseverance, and strategy. You start with a goal in mind. You have a plan of attack, and if you intend to finish, and you stick with it. When it’s done right, the pieces work together; there are no extras lying around, and there are no gaps in the resulting image....

3 Steps To Solving Your Business Challenge With A Hackathon

January 29, 2013
Sander Biehn

It came to me in a flash: A way to solve the miserable traffic problems in Atlanta that plague everyone who lives here! The answer involved opt-in location tracking, smart GPS navigational systems, and big data. Alas, to make it come alive, I needed either millions of dollars or a room full of coders to build a prototype. With no programmers in sight, the answer was gone as fast as it came....

How We Help You Put The Network To Work

January 15, 2013
Christopher Rice

The global AT&T network is a tremendous information resource, one we are making even more useful to enterprises. By creating new Application Program Interfaces (APIs), we’re opening the network so businesses can easily access their information—and put that data to work. In simple terms, an API lets you initiate a network function or collect network information with a relatively simple command....

New APIs Open The AT&T Network For More Business

January 10, 2013
ATT

Imagine being able to request critical employee information and having that data returned to you from the far reaches of the AT&T network, and then being able to provide subsets of that information to targeted user groups. Welcome to the world of Application Program Interfaces (APIs), a new technology that’s gradually – and securely – opening up...

What’s Your “IT” New Year’s Resolution?

December 28, 2012
Michael Nigro

Can’t help but think about the promise of what the New Year might bring to business, and of course information technology or IT. IT for all intents and purposes runs small, medium, and large businesses day in and day out. You know it well, and when things don’t go according to plan, your IM is ringing off the hook!...

Big Data: What’s In It For Government?

December 19, 2012
Josh Heard

Joseph Engelberger once said, “I can’t define a robot, but I know one when I see one.” Would he really? Maybe the entire futuristic notion of the mechanical human is misguided? After all, the future is now and I don’t see robots anywhere… What I do see is the same sort of life convenience and functionality coming from an entire array of interconnected devices that tend to my needs....

How Will The Network Of The Future Bring Back The Dodo Bird And Wooly Mammoth?

December 12, 2012
Sander Biehn

Digital ants will one day protect us and our utility infrastructure from cyber threats. Connected cars will rule the roads and spare parts will be manufactured at home eliminating those pesky trips to the hardware store. Wallets and keys will be a thing of the past and wooly mammoths and dodo birds may be given a second chance. Disease epidemics will be stopped in their tracks. In November, Popular Mechanics (PM) Special 110th...

3 Ways Location Services Can Boost Your Business

December 10, 2012
Chris Aron

Most of us are familiar with smart-phone client-based mapping applications, which allow you to use your mapping application on your smartphone to find a nearby business or get directions. Network-based location on the other hand is not as well known. Network-based location using cellular networks has been around a couple of years now, using tier one domestic and international carriers to derive cellular devices location (feature and...

Transformation in the Eye of the Storm

December 3, 2012
Sybil Fitzpatrick

We have just seen the worst storm to hit the Eastern seaboard in our entire lives. Over eight million people were without power. Roads were closed, businesses were closed, and people were cold. Not to mention the billions of dollars in damages. This was one of the largest scale disasters, and yet there was less confusion about who was not accounted for than other events due to better communications....

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Extend Access to Home Workers and Road Warriors

October 24, 2012
ATT

Your VPN keeps your various business locations interconnected and corporate information flowing. Sometimes the tentacles of that VPN must stretch to reach users working from home or in other small or satellite offices....

Getting ‘IT’ All Together with Network Sourcing

October 19, 2012
ATT

These days, the complexity of your IT infrastructure can be tough enough even for you to fully grasp — let alone other key departments in your organization. And it’s not like it’s getting any simpler....

7 Questions Your Business Should Answer About Email And The Cloud

October 18, 2012
Sudeep Trivedi

Not a day goes by these days without a news article or press release talking about email in the cloud. It’s pretty well understood that email is one of the first applications you should...

Take Your Seat At The Strategy Table

Lee Sheehan

You know the deal: ignore the network at your peril. But when it comes time for strategic planning, how can IT professionals make sure everyone else understands those stakes, too?...