AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a new three-year, $1.2 million
contract with United Natural Foods Inc. (NASDAQ:UNFI), Dayville, Conn.,
a leading independent national distributor of natural foods and
products. AT&T will provide new fiber-access services to the company
to enable it to more effectively manage its business communications
requirements.
Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T will provide United
Natural Foods with ACCU-Ring(R) Network Access Service -- a private
SONET ring providing dedicated high speed access. The service will
enable United Natural Foods to virtually eliminate data center downtime
caused by access issues and enhance application performance by
consolidating all voice, data and video traffic.
AT&T's ACCU-Ring architecture will protect United Natural
Food's critical applications from being disrupted or degraded in
quality because of loss of signal or transmission impairment because it
employs a dual-fiber self-healing ring with a primary and protected
path. By modernizing network access services from copper to fiber,
United Natural Foods will be able to more effectively control costs and
position itself for newer access technologies that will scale with the
company as its communications needs grow.
"AT&T's solution gives us the confidence and security
of private network services and the protection of high reliability for
our mission-critical applications, helping our business run more
effectively," said Ken Greene, vice president, IT Compliance and
Logistics. "We are now well-positioned with AT&T to take
advantage of future technologies."
About AT&T
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company.
Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the
providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the
world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based
business communications services and the nation's leading wireless,
high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets,
AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales
leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and
the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as
communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration
strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings.
For more information about AT&T Inc. and the products and
services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates, visit
http://www.att.com or call 617/692-0509.
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