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private data network

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private data network

A communications network that is used by one organization or an industry group. A private data network may be deployed as private lines leased from common carriers and entirely architected by the network owner, or it may be a virtual private network (VPN) service either over the Internet or one that was provisioned within a carrier's network. Contrast with public data network. See VPN.
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Some companies are carving their own secure virtual private data networks out of the giant, high-speed backbones of Internet access providers.
AT&T's Enterprise VPN Services Portfolio today supports customers implementing VPNs on IP-enabled private data networks that use MPLS technology.
"During the conversion, the Chinese Government is implementing uniform standards for all private data networks. The amount of hardware and software that is needed to complete the network is huge", says James Tong, president of GFX, "This is a very exciting and unprecedented development opportunity for Hi-Tech companies to become strategic partners with Golden Fortune."
According to the company, AltiGen's Microsoft-based platform enables First State to achieve primary objectives to: utilise its private data network to transmit VoIP telephone calls; reduce hardware deployed via a centralised solution housed in its data centre; enable the IT staff to administer all moves, adds and changes from a single application; and provide a software-based solution to support flexibility and scalability for future growth.
The company's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fibre, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, dedicated Internet access, and colocation services.
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