MTS to provide business IP services to SSC

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...