Voice over IP
ATT VoIP's Services help your business evolve to the next generation of converged communication services. Enhancing employee productivity, reducing operational expenses and gaining the efficiencies of a unified network help you attain the leading edge over your competition. AT&T's VoIP services are delivered with the quality of service, reliability and security required for your mission critical business communications. Powering these services is AT&T's world-class global, IP-MPLS network, which is standards-based and designed to support open protocols such as Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) which provides the interoperability and scalability that your business needs for next-generation communication applications.AT&T offers a broad portfolio of VoIP solutions designed to help you achieve your business objectives at the pace your business requires...Corporate Networks: VoIP with AT&T's VPN services helps you maximize your networking investment by providing you with high quality voice communications that can seamlessly connect your entire enterpriseBranch Offices: AT&T IP Telephony services give you the flexibility to deploy advanced features throughout the entire enterprise. Whether your employees are located at headquarters or a remote office, they can all benefit from the productivity enhancements of IP Telephony.Remote Workers: Whether you have full-time, part-time or occasional remote workers, AT&T will be providing services that support their needs with cost effective, feature rich options that allow them to be "always at their desk".Call Centers: As your call centers evolve to be IP-enabled, AT&T will evolve with you and provide critical VoIP services to help you gain new efficiencies and capabilities as you serve your customers.IP Flexible Reach AT&T IP Flexible Reach is a managed Voice over IP communication solution that supports inbound and outbound calling on your data network giving you local, U.S. long distance and international reach for your U.S. sites.IP Telephony/LAN Management AT&T's IP Telephony Services seamlessly connect employees across your enterprise.Voice DNA AT&T Voice DNASM is a hosted VoIP service that delivers optimal communications for your organization, employees & customers.
IP and IP VPN
Virtual Private Networks deliver the attributes of a private data network within a shared network infrastructure. They offer enterprise-class scalability and reach across multiple IP-based infrastructures, along with many of the performance and security characteristics traditionally found only in dedicated private environments.AT&T VPN gives you choices in your network design of sophisticated VPN technologies, access, security, voice and WiFi offers, with the flexibility to add on options such as Voice over IP, Video, remote access and hosting. AT&T's VPN offers a management continuum that affords varying degrees of strategic control ranging from "do-it-yourself" to fully managed, along with a full range of complementary services to deliver a truly integrated VPN experience.Basic applications driving enterprise networking requirements today include:Intranet - Allow users to gain access to secured corporate informationExtranet - Support business-to-business communicationsRemote Access - Provide remote workers or traveling users the same level of connectivity as individuals who work in branch officesDSL As your business grows, so does the need to connect to the Internet quickly and efficiently, to gather and convey information, as well as to communicate and provide a direct link to your business partners.Global Managed Internet Service AT&T's Global Managed Internet Service establishes a dedicated Internet connection to your multi-national sites, from Belgium to Brazil, from Russia to Australia and nearly everywhere in between.Managed Internet Service Your business relies on the Internet for many critical operations - electronic commerce, e-mail, remote access productivity and much more.Network-Based VPN Get secure, reliable transport of your critical applications across a unified MPLS-enabled global platform with AT&T Network Based IP VPN Service.Premises-Based VPN Look to AT&T's Premises-Based IP VPN Service for secure, easy-to-use, reliable, low-cost connectivity for your remote access and branch office users.
About AT&T
AT&T Recognized As a Strong Performer by Independent Research FirmAT&T Recognized for Having One of the Strongest All-Around Suites of VoIP ServicesBedminster, New Jersey, February 13, 2007@import url("/Common/merger/css/merger.css");AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) today announced that Forrester rated it as one of the strongest performers in a thorough evaluation of enterprise-class Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers in The Forrester Wave™: US Enterprise-Class VoIP Services, Q1 2007 report. One of the earliest providers of a managed WAN-based VoIP offering, AT&T leads all other providers in planned IP telephony and VoIP feature enhancements for 2007.In extensive evaluations of leading telecommunications services providers, AT&T's VoIP offerings secured leadership rankings on many of the most important attributes expressed by enterprise buyers, including breadth of offering, IP telephony and VoIP feature enhancements, flexibility (particularly for VoIP interoperability with key PSTN features), hosted VoIP and IP Centrex services, Managed IP PBX, VoIP Conferencing; SIP Trunking and managed services.AT&T continues to play a leading role in defining the future of the VoIP market, placing heavy emphasis on bringing to market the advanced business services that enterprises need, as they continue to evaluate the productivity and cost-savings benefits associated with VoIPIn evaluating AT&T's current offerings and strategy for U.S. enterprise-class VoIP services against over 120 criteria, Forrester concluded that AT&T provides the greatest breadth of managed IP PBX services among competitors. AT&T also scored highest in Forrester's evaluation of SIP Trunking capabilities and hosted VoIP. Moreover, Forrester concluded that AT&T is the only provider that supports all three of the major IP PBX vendors today: Avaya, Cisco and Nortel. This multi vendor support is a critical consideration for enterprises that want to realize the many advantages of VoIP while protecting the investments they have already made in voice calling systems.Forrester also noted that AT&T leads all other providers in planned feature enhancements for 2007. And Forrester found that AT&T is the only provider currently building a third-generation VoIP service based on IMS, which allows users to move seamlessly between their homes, offices and the road while connected to a call or an application.To prepare The Forrester Wave: US Enterprise-Class VoIP Services, Q1 2007, Forrester conducted primary research to develop a list of vendors that met its criteria to be evaluated in the VoIP market. Vendors were selected according to product and service fit, customer success and Forrester client demand. Forrester then evaluated the lead vendors according to criteria it had developed after examining user needs and conducting vendor and expert interviews."We are pleased to be recognized as a strong performer in The Forrester Wave1" said Peggy Sexton, vice president, Business VoIP, AT&T. "We continue to work very hard to deliver the most sophisticated VoIP solutions in the industry that drive real value for all of our customers: from small and midsized companies to multinational enterprises."1. The Forrester Wave™: US Enterprise-Class VoIP Services, Q1, 2007, Lisa Pierce, 2/9/07.Note: This AT&T release and other news announcements are available as part of an RSS feed at www.att.com/rss.About AT&TAT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company in the United States and around the world, with operating subsidiaries providing services under the AT&T brand. AT&T is the recognized world leader in providing IP-based communications services to businesses and the U.S. leader in providing wireless, high speed Internet access, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising through its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding video entertainment offerings to include such next-generation television services as AT&T U-verseSM TV. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com/.
AT&T Tacks VOIP
AT&T VoIP on Enhanced VPN Voice, the oldest form of communication, still dominates today’s menu of business applications. Businesses demand information in real time, and voice is frequently the most immediate means to deliver it.An AT&T VPN service with Voice Over IP, combines two important services into one, fulfilling the needs for real-time communications, economical convergence and security-rich networking by having data on a private backbone.Adding Voice Over IP to your VPN solution can immediately displace your traditional voice services costs between network-connected sites on domestic and international outbound calls. Your global locations will have international, end-to-end, managed "On-Net" voice services between your voice enabled sites as well as the ability to make ‘Off-Net’ calls, which will “hop-off” from the AT&T Global Network and terminate on the traditional PSTN network.Key features include:Consolidation of IP voice and IP data services on a single networkRich security features, CoS and SLAs to ensure business-class voice qualityIntegration and local support for all your global enterprise locationsFull management and 24x7 global monitoring from AT&TComprehensive web-enabled, customer specific reportingAT&T VoIP Solutions for TeleworkersHow do you create a secure communications environment for your employees to access the same enterprise applications and network at home and in the office?Thanks to Internet technologies and new ways of working, today's teleworkers - whether they're at home or on the road - can be as "present" in the workplace as their colleagues in cubicles.Successful remote working results in higher productivity, improved morale and cost savings. VoIP-enabled networks help deliver these benefits by connecting departments, buildings, branch offices and telecommuters by voice, using the company's existing data network.Unified messaging helps productivity by allowing users to access both their voice mail and email from a single mailbox. Since calls are routed when the worker dials into the corporate network, calls and messages can follow them as they change locations.AT&T VoIP Solutions can extend full PBX features to any remote IP phone or traditional phone connected via an integrated access device. This makes phones "virtual twins" of the phones in the corporate office - complete with full support for advanced voice features such as extension dialing, hunt groups and attendant support. Management of a transient workforce is also easier, with flexibility in assigning telephone numbers to different offices.Enhance your business productivity with these VoIP benefits:Telecommunications savings by eliminating separate data and telephony networking costsProductivity-enhancing features, such as call logs, do not disturb and conferencingSingle source provider for service delivery, customer care and billingBusiness continuity with a secure, scalable and reliable solution