CORPORATE NEWS:
Army National Guard network modernisation
Sprint, USA, a global integrated communications provider serving more than 26 million customers in over 100 countries, recently announced that it has been awarded a new contract for the Army National Guard's network modernisation and bandwidth expansion project, called GuardNet. The contract, which includes migrating the National Guard's current MCI-provided ATM services to the government-grade Sprint peerless IP Network, is valued at $18 million in equipment and services its first year; total contract value with options is estimated at $36 million over five years.
The GuardNet project represents the latest federal contract for IP services tied to the unique Sprint peerless IP network, the only IP network from a major carrier that has no physical connectivity with the public Internet. Sprint announced the build out of this "government-grade network" earlier in 2003 and has seen tremendous interest in the network from federal government agencies since the network was completed this summer. “The Sprint peerless IP network is specifically tailored to meet the performance and security demands of government customers by eliminating connections to the public Internet and creating a closed user group environment”, commented Mr Tony D'Agata, vice president and general manager for Sprint's Government Systems Division. The Sprint GuardNet contract will include migration of ATM traffic to the Sprint Peerless IP Network at 58 sites throughout the United States and its territories, routers and related IP networking equipment from Sprint alliance partner Cisco, and video-conferencing equipment from Tandberg. The National Guard will retain network management functions. The first to deploy a nationwide, all-digital fiber-optic network, Sprint operates one of the world's few Tier-1 IP networks, SprintLink. The SprintLink OC-192 backbone is implemented as a native IP platform as opposed to a less efficient IP over ATM architecture used by many providers in the industry. The Sprint peerless IP Network uses this same architecture and provides the same industry leading performance without connectivity to the Internet.
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