You’ll Never Have to Worry About Business With AT&T Data Centers

RATHER than spending huge amount of money, big and small businesses engaged in phone services, internet, and the likes need a stable and reliable “data center.”

Data center is a place where library of information is stored, managed and disseminated. It is a facility where computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems are housed. A room equipped with redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls such as air conditioning, fire suppression) and security devices.

But maintaining and running data center requires enormous attention and is costly thus many businesses just merely rely on “co-location,” the renting of physical space on a service provider’s premises.

Colocation can be likened to cloud computing, a kind of a leasing model that allows a business to rent IT [Information Technology] infrastructure off-site instead of building and maintaining a large dedicated “data center” in-house.

For instance, a start-up business might colocate its servers. In such a scenario, the servers are owned by the business but are colocated to save money in overhead costs incurred by things like cooling, physical security or insurance. Some colocation providers also provide technical support for additional fees.

One of the reliable data centers in the United States is that of AT&T, Inc., the largest provider of fixed telephony in the United States, and also provides broadband and subscription television services.

AT&T data centers are equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and can offer its clients and customers with business solutions services that are very critical for their business needs. Their applications are complete with the necessary tools needed for network management and are very capable of handling any situation, from the easiest up to the most complex circumstances.

For instance, AT&T Commercial Connectivity Services (CCS) provides multiple options for network-to-network connectivity. These options include Frame Relay, Network VPN and IP-enabled PVC. The Network VPN option can be used as the back up option for Frame Relay or IP-enabled PVC. CCS offers a number of customizations tailored to the customer needs.

To help ensure the highest level of CCS service availability, CCS is deployed with Geo-Diversity features as a standard practice. Redundant connections are deployed between the CCS customers’ private Enterprise Network and 2 different Geo-Diverse AT&T Data Centers to help ensure that CCS service is not impacted in the event of a single CCS Network-to-Network connection outage.

Carrier grade systems are tested and engineered to high availability standards, and provide fast fault recovery.


Author works with AT&T Data Centers and has been writing about at&t pri for years.

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