AT&T has announced an agreement with the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana, to install a fiber-based network. The network is expected to enable more efficient communications and operations among fire, police, park, water, transportation and other city facilities.
Under the agreement, AT&T will upgrade the city and county’s wide area network from its current copper composition to fiber-based OPT-E-MAN network.
According to AT&T, its OPT-E-MAN is a fully managed, switched metro ethernet service that will accelerate communications among all 46 city and county locations with data transfer rates ranging from 5Mbps to 1Gpbs.
The city and county Information Technology Department worked with AT&T for more than a year to develop and design this fiber network. The company said that it will heighten disaster recovery capabilities by creating a backup off-site. AT&T will also provide monitoring of the network.
George Fleetwood, president of AT&T Indiana, said: “We appreciate the confidence that the City of Evansville and Vanderburgh County have placed in us. Our team will deliver a fiber network that provides the speed, security and reliability.”
Earlier in this week 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.
