AT&T has won Hosting Contract from Air Products

AT&T announced that
Air Products has awarded AT&T with a three year multimillion dollar
enterprise hosting contract. Air Products has chosen to migrate its own data
centre in the south of England to AT&T's IDC (Internet Data Centre) in the
U.K. to ensure that a secure and robust infrastructure is in place to
accommodate further expansion of the business.

Air Products serves customers in industrial, energy, technology and health
care markets worldwide and provides atmospheric gases, process and specialty
gases, performance materials, equipment and services.

Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T will be hosting a number of
business applications, including components of the company's global SAP
landscape, systems to support the European health care business and messaging
for the European region.

AT&T has provided Air Products with a global Internet Protocol-based VPN
(Virtual Private Network) since 2005. This contract follows the successful
implementation of a similar project in Singapore, where Air Products migrated to
AT&T's facility in Singapore because of physical constraints at its own
facilities. In addition to hosting services, AT&T will also provide an
International Private Line Circuit to the company's data centre in the U.S.