TORONTO – Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) has signed a multi-year contract to provide business IP and switched ethernet services to Shared Services Canada (SSC), the Government of Canada department responsible for providing telecommunication services, email and data centres to SSC partners.
The implementation of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) managed service will help SSC deliver on its mandate to improve the efficiency, reliability and security of the government's IT infrastructure. It will connect up to 850 sites across the country, with the flexibility and intelligence of IP routing and the transport quality of a single, high performance network. By implementing an IP-based solution, voice, data and multimedia applications can be converged onto a single private network, simplifying the ability for network development and providing a higher overall return on infrastructure investment say MTS. This it adds combined with the benefits of a switched ethernet solution, will allow smooth and dependable sharing of information and applications across multiple LANs, further increasing SSC's productivity.
"We have a long history of working with the federal government and will now have an even bigger role in creating greater efficiency in their network environment," said Dean Prevost, President of Allstream. "We're very pleased that our solutions fit the government's objective of efficiently using technology to increase productivity."
