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AT&T Helps Furniture Brands International Establish a Corporatewide Communications Solution

Posted on: Thursday, 6 December 2007, 09:00 CST

LENOIR, N.C., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. today announced a multiyear contract with Furniture Brands International for Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, managed network-based firewall services and AT&T Network-based IP VPN Remote Access (ANIRA) capabilities.

AT&T will help the leading designer, manufacturer and retailer of home furnishings extend services to multiple locations across the Southeast and convert from legacy Frame Relay services to the more efficient and advanced Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN services. The AT&T MPLS solution will allow Furniture Brands to seamlessly mesh different types of networking technologies, enable secure communication among locations that use different communications protocols and ease the integration of legacy network services. In addition, AT&T's managed firewall service will provide Furniture Brands with proactive monitoring 24/7, establishing extensive security capabilities without taxing Furniture Brands' in-house IT personnel.

"We needed to consolidate the communications providers and technologies of Furniture Brands' divisions to establish corporatewide communications and management of our network services," said Bob Hardester, chief information officer, Furniture Brands International. "With this new solution, we now have the tools to operate communications for all of our divisions, with one technology managed by AT&T."

The contract also includes AT&T Business Network (ABN) services and long distance services, as well as AT&T wireless services.

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About Furniture Brands International

Furniture Brands International is a vertically integrated operating company that is one of the nation's leading designers, manufacturers, and retailers of home furnishings. With annual sales in excess of $2 billion, it markets through a wide range of retail channels, from mass merchant stores to single-brand and independent dealers to specialized interior designers. Furniture Brands serves its customers through four distinct brand families -- Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville and Drexel Heritage, and a Designer Brands group that includes, Henredon, Pearson, Hickory Chair, Laneventure, and Maitland-Smith.

About AT&T

AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among their offerings are the world's most advanced IP-based business communications services and the nation's leading wireless, high speed Internet access and voice services. In domestic markets, AT&T is known for the directory publishing and advertising sales leadership of its Yellow Pages and YELLOWPAGES.COM organizations, and the AT&T brand is licensed to innovators in such fields as communications equipment. As part of its three-screen integration strategy, AT&T is expanding its TV entertainment offerings. Additional information about AT&T Inc. and the products and services provided by AT&T subsidiaries and affiliates is available at http://www.att.com/.

(C) 2007 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T, the AT&T logo and all other marks contained herein are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property and/or AT&T affiliated companies. For more information, please review this announcement in the AT&T newsroom at http://www.att.com/newsroom.

AT&T Inc.

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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