AT&T announced a series of enhancements to its global IP network, including:
- expansion into markets such as China, Thailand, India and Costa Rica, as well as integration with Alestra's network in Mexico;
- a growing volume of live customer traffic over recently deployed long-haul Optical Carrier (OC)-768-ready fiber from San Francisco to Seattle, transmitting data up to 40 Gbps on a single fiber strand;
- expanding broadband remote access options by increasing global WiFi access from 2,900 to 4,000 hot spots, wired Ethernet from 600 U.S. locations to 1,200 globally, and DSL from 6,300 U.S. central offices to 8,000;
- extension of its network disaster recovery capabilities into Europe; and
- opening of four new Internet Data Centers in Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and London, expanding its footprint to 25 centers on four continents.
