AT&T says its new service offering is timely, especially in light of the growing number of new regulations and legislation mandating how companies and institutions secure their stored data (see Feds Set DR Regulations).
For one customer that's already signed up for AT&T's service, the priority is simply providing continuous access to its data. WorldSpan, which provides technology services for the travel industry, is housing an EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) Symmetrix box in an AT&T data center as a secondary disaster recovery site. The company, which stores up-to-the minute airline passenger information on its system, says reliable mirroring and recovery is absolutely crucial to its business.
"We have to be able to retrieve that on the minute," says Kelly Higgins, WorldSpan's director of e-commerce communication infrastructure. "EMC's box and the bandwidth that AT&T provides meet our expectations."
In addition to WorldSpan, AT&T says it already has a number of customers signed up for the new service.
So how much does this service cost? The pricing is driven by the amount of bandwidth a customer uses, AT&T says. At the low end, the carrier offers a 10-Mbit/s FC-over-private-line service between two endpoints for a minimum monthly fee of $20,000. At the high end -- for example, an OC48 (2.5 Gbit/s) service with full line-speed running across the country -- the offerings are priced on an individual basis, the company says.
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