American Payroll Association Inks Multi-Year Contract for Time Warner Telecom’s IP VPN Solution
LAS VEGAS, April 8, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Time Warner Telecom, Inc. , a leading provider of managed voice and data networking solutions for businesses, today announced the signing of a multi-year contract to provide a five-site IP VPN service to the American Payroll Association (APA) in Las Vegas, as well as company headquarters in San Antonio, Texas and three additional U.S. locations. The APA is the leading association serving the interests and professional development needs of over 23,000 payroll professionals across the United States.
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“We chose Time Warner Telecom’s IP VPN service because of its bandwidth capacity, flexibility and scalability, which will make our new Las Vegas MEET convention facility highly competitive in attracting Fortune 500 clients,” said Jim Owen, senior director of administration for the American Payroll Association in San Antonio. “We’re also looking forward to the greater reliability that the IP VPN will provide at our five sites nationwide.”
“We expect the Time Warner Telecom IP VPN to eliminate the many outages that have disrupted our voice and data communications in the past,” explained Owen. “The ability to scale our circuits up to 1 Gbps was also very attractive to us. Now, we’ll be able to say ‘yes’ to potential MEET facility clients who need infrastructure capable of supporting bandwidth-intensive data and video applications.”
At the enterprise level the new Time Warner Telecom IP VPN will deliver the capacity the APA needs to fuel future growth. “Our publications and video teams download very large files,” said Owen. “We expect the IP VPN to eliminate the slowdowns and crashes we have experienced with our overtaxed legacy solution.”
The Time Warner Telecom IP VPN will deliver “any-to-any” connectivity to APA’s five regional sites, including the Las Vegas MEET facility and its San Antonio headquarters. The remaining three locations in New York, Washington D.C. and San Antonio will access the network seamlessly from their locations. An Ethernet Internet connection will also originate from the San Antonio headquarters facility to provide Internet for all company locations. Additionally, the company contracted for collocation services to support its business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) objectives.
“Las Vegas is unique in that it has more convention and tradeshow floor space than any other city in the United States,” said Deb Carmachel, vice president and general manager for Time Warner Telecom in Las Vegas. “APA managers have the ability to differentiate themselves in such a competitive market with these advanced communications capabilities so they can meet the ever growing requirements of their customers. Our MPLS-based IP VPN technology provides Class of Service (CoS) as well as the flexibility and the scalability exhibitors and businesses seek to represent their products and meet capacity and speed of service expectations.”
Time Warner Telecom is changing its name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008. About Time Warner Telecom
Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., provides managed network services, specializing in Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP and security, to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughout the U.S. As a leading provider of integrated and converged network solutions, Time Warner Telecom delivers customers overall economic value, quality, service, and improved business productivity. Time Warner Telecom will change its name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008. Please visit http://www.twtelecom.com/ for more information.
About the American Payroll Association
The American Payroll Association (APA) is the professional society for payroll professionals. Founded in 1982, the APA serves over 23,000 members across all payroll disciplines and throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Canada and other nations. To learn more, please visit http://www.americanpayroll.org/.
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