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Telecomworldwire, Nov 20, 2008
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-20 November 2008-AT&T opens first Super IDC in Asia(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
US communications holding company AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) announced on Wednesday (19 November) that the company is opening its first super Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Asia in Singapore.
The super IDC, an expansion of AT&T's existing facilities, will reportedly serve as a regional gateway to the Internet and the AT&T network to deliver AT&T Synaptic Hosting, the company's next-generation utility computing services.
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The AT&T IDCs allow the company to deliver consistent, highly scalable, enterprise-class Information Technology (IT) services around the globe. The super IDC also supports large-scale computing and application infrastructure on demand that can be combined with other AT&T hosting services, such as managed networking, virtualised security, application acceleration and storage.
AT&T said that the opening of the super IDC in Asia is part of the company's USD1bn planned global network investment in 2008 to increase global data centre hosting capacity throughout the 38 data centres in AT&T's global Internet Protocol (IP) network.
The company's other super IDCs are located in Piscataway, New Jersey; San Diego, California; Annapolis, Maryland in the US and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, which will form the regional hubs in the US and Europe.
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