AT&T Partners on State-of-the-Art Facility in Qatar

AT&T is partnering with Qtel and NavLink to jointly develop and deliver advanced data communications services and solutions for Energy City Qatar (ECQ), a landmark business center in the Middle East. ECQ is a major US$2.6 billion development to create the Middle East’s first integrated energy and business center for the oil and gas industry. Plans include a carrier class Internet data center (IDC) and a network operations center (NOC) built to AT&T’s and Qtel’s standards for these types of facilities. NavLink, (a company in which AT&T and Qtel both hold a minority shareholding) will supply network management tools and use both the NOC and IDC to deliver a variety of AT&T managed and hosting services to the ECQ tenants.http://www.att.com