March 5, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Telecommunications provider AT&T (att.com) announced on Wednesday that it is planning to expand its data center network with a focus on Boston, Massachusetts, Dallas, Texas, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Singapore. This comes just six months after AT&T announced new data centers in Toronto, Canada and Piscataway, New Jersey.
The company says it plans to add about 180,000 square feet of hosting space as part of a broader $1 billion expansion of its network, which already consists of 38 data centers around the world. AT&T’s 2008 expansion budget is 33 percent larger than last year’s and the company says it is being driven by the recent surges in data, voice and video traffic.
AT&T’s network expansion also will include new undersea fiber optic cable capacity to Japan and Asia, new core MPLS routers to Europe, Asia and the US, new network-to-network connections to extend its reach into high growth markets in Asia Pacific, Eastern Europe and South America as well as the rollout of a global virtual private local area network solution. By the end of 2008, AT&T says it expects to have an Ethernet footprint in 39 countries.
Last month, AT&T extended its partnership with 1-800-Flowers.com and will continue to support its infrastructure with data hosting services in a multi-year contract.
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