(1) The document describes AT&T's IP Flexible Reach service, which allows businesses to converge their voice and data networks over AT&T's IP network.
(2) Key features of IP Flexible Reach include virtual telephone numbers, multiple IP addresses for clustered IP PBX systems, inbound alternate routing for call failover, and integration with AT&T Business in a Box for an all-in-one communications solution.
(3) The service provides benefits such as lower total cost of ownership, increased voice functionality, scalability, flexibility, and productivity improvements for businesses.
Key Takeaway
[Note: Customer believes that AT&T understandsbusiness drivers, the IT landscape, the value ofconvergence and the steps to take to achievebusiness aims]
Key Point
Key issues impacting businesses today…
Improving productivity
Better integration of business applications
Managing costs more effectively
Ensuring the continuity and security of ongoing operations
Integrated IT technologies are a key element in enabling businesses to meet those challenges
Key components of the IT landscape include: access, networking fabric, application infrastructure, and applications
4 Points of Convergence
1.Integrate Mobile and Fixed Access Options(need to converge multiple networks, devices and technologies to deliver consistent globalperformance)
Comprehensive solutions for remote, point-to-point, ring and metropolitan area network access
Global footprint with remote access from 149 countries
Industry-leading Ethernet services, and comprehensive set of wireless and wireline solutions
2.Enable your Network with MPLS(Need to manage technology migration and complexity while ensuring consistency globally)
One of the world’s leading VPN portfolio with dedicated access to MPLS services from > 1,500 service nodes in 80 countries, and remote access from over 22,500 points in 149 countries
Managed and service management options by site
3.Optimize your Application Infrastructure(Need to integrate, correlate, and automate)
High performing facilities, comprehensive capabilities and the industry-leading portal, as well as “Always-On” infrastructure and recovery capabilities
Expansive portfolio of security, storage, intelligent content distribution, load balancing, and portal reporting. And, traffic prioritization, event correlation and automated root cause analysis
Security, scalability, on-demand capacity and reliability of AT&T’s Global Internet Data Centers, 28 Global Internet Data Centers, 30 by EOY 2005
4.Utilize Services over IP(Ensuring scalability performance and security of IP-based communication applications globally)
Robust portfolio of network and premises-based (VoIP, voice, messaging, conferencing, video)
Interoperability agreements with leading technology vendors
Point-and-click network administration via AT&T BusinessDirectSM
Intuitive and easy to use end-user web experience
Currently support for clusters with Cisco CCM 6.0 SIP and CM 4.3.1 H323 have been certified.
IP PBX clusters must be located at a SINGLE IP FR site only (1site = 1 order =1 AT&T managed router)
•IP Flexible Reach will support up to 5 IP PBXs in a cluster; both H.323 and SIP clusters are supported .
Inbound calls will be distributed to each IP address within a cluster in a round robin routing fashion. [see section below for a description of this process] On outbound calls, it does not matter which of the IP PBXs in the cluster are sending traffic. Regardless of which IP PBX sends the outbound call, the call processing provided by the BVoIP Application Server is the same.
•The maximum concurrent call volume is based on the transport capacity that the you will
order. [example: for a T1 maximum is 50 concurrent calls]
Calls within a cluster are supported in a Round Robin routing fashion, and this is the only configuration that AT&T supports. Customer can have a single site cluster of up to 5 IP-PBXs. If all of the IP-PBXs are "available", they will all be part of the round-robin list, and calls from the network to the cluster will be distributed in a round-robin fashion: i.e., the first call will go to IP-PBX 1, the second call will go IP-PBX 2, etc. ("Available" means that the IP-PBX is responding to the network's SIP or H.323 messages, so the network can offer calls to it; "available" does not mean that there is available capacity on the IP-PBX).
True “All Distance” calling – Local, Long Distance, and International Voice, and Data on a single network.
IP “trunking” service delivering integrated access for customer PBX platforms (platforms supported Cisco Call Manager, Avaya MultiVantage, Avaya IP Office, Nortel BCM 50 and 200/400, 3Com and others coming).
Provides centralization of customer operations – enterprise wide solution for ease of management; unified voice and data infrastructure enables personnel and staffing efficiencies.
Provides flexibility with Virtual Telephone Numbers – telephone numbers can be provisioned for appearance of local “presence”.
Provides all Local calling feature options that a customer has come to expect (Local Number Portability, E911, Caller ID, Directory Listings, etc.).
Access Transport available MIS/PNT, Ethernet and MLPPP.
MIS/PNT High-speed dedicated internet access, 24/7 monitoring, Communications link between your locations and the AT&T network
MPLS PNT is an option of Managed Internet Service (MIS), provides an IP VPN solution using MPLS for security; fully meshed offer providing any-to-any connectivity
Ethernet Switched Service (ESS) MIS/PNT -Virtual private network (VPN) connects your local area networks (LANs) within the same metropolitan area and/or across two or more metropolitan areas. Uses our network strength to create a scalable optical network within your metropolitan area network. Allows many transport data configurations (point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, multipoint-to-multipoint circuits)
(MLPPP) MIS/PNT-Capability for combining 2-8 T1s into a “bundle” which has the appearance and behavior of a single interface with one IP Address, Load balancing across the links. When a T1 in a bundle fails, the other T1s absorb the traffic automatically
Addt’l features Priority Queuing / Weighted Fair Queuing
22k per call compression – for each call instead of 56k call it is a 22k call so it allows for more calls
FYI – During controlled introduction (CI) the Cisco Call Manager Express will not be supported.
Additionally, during CI, E911 serial line interface (SLI) will not be supported.
Site Availability SLA
The performance objective for the Voice DNA Flexible Reach Site Availability SLA is that no problem occurring within the AT&T IP Network, the AT&T CPE, or, if provided by AT&T at the Site, the dedicated access will prevent Customer from completing all attempted calls for a period that lasts two consecutive hours or more. If AT&T does not meet this performance objective, Customer will be entitled to a credit equal to 1/30th of Customer's Covered Monthly Charges at the affected Site for each such incident. Does not apply to Remote Sites.
Note: Voice DNA SLAs are independent of the MIS/MPLS PNT SLAs. Therefore, a customer may be able to claim credit due to an MIS/MPLS PNT network outage as well as Voice DNA Availability SLA credit for the same cause.
Maximize investment of your existing IP PBX
Assign telephone numbers for branch office sites supported by a single centralized IP PBX
Use your existing IP data network to conveniently distribute the calls to your branch office sites
IP Flexible Reach Technical Assistance – Optional Project Management and Onsite Installation services;
Simplified, clear installation experience and expectations
At no cost to the customer:
Router installation (AT&T Managed Flexible Reach Router)
Power up and physical check
Connect POTS lines for AT&T remote management activities
Quintum Tenor installation (optional – only when Quintum unit is part of the IP Flexible Reach solution, unit is customer owned and maintained)
Install the Quintum unit before or during circuit test and turn up, and after the AT&T IP FlexReach Managed Router has been powered up.
Connect the AT&T Managed Router and the Quintum unit.
Install ’66 block’ on a proper mounting surface, and wire the Quintum ports to the block. Label the block for proper customer phone equipment connections.
Connect POTS lines if required (for customer’s backup use)
At additional cost to the customer: Demarcation extensions
Optional Services Charges
Inside Wire – Demarcation Extensions
Important! The services listed above only apply for T1 orders. For fractional T3 or Full T3 circuit contact the IP Flexible Reach Product Management for assistance
Reduced circuit cost delivery [integrated access]
Network optimization [dump those tie lines]
Secure IP hand-off to iPBX networks [SIP protocol “knobs”]
BOT (300 min/CC) billing where available [predictable billing]
Simplified on/off net dial planning [just point traffic to AT&T]
End-to-end IP Telephony [remove expensive moving parts]
IPT is mainstream and widely adopted by customers
SIP trunking avoids the “CODEC farms” (gateways) needed for ISDN/CAS
Increased trunking scalability and flexibility [add/remove channels]