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EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T)
today announced a five-year $3.2 million networking services contract with
Integra Bank, a leading financial services provider throughout Indiana,
Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. AT&T will be integrating and upgrading Integra's
current Frame Relay services to a single Virtual Private Network (VPN)
solution.
"AT&T offers the skill and global scale needed to complete this complex
yet crucial upgrade for Integra," said Amy Drake, senior vice president of
Integra Bank. "Our new network services give our employees and our customers
greater velocity in their daily activities, making banking interactions quick
and efficient."
Integra Bank employees and customers will experience faster, enhanced
applications with the new VPN services, which run on AT&T's Multiprotocol
Label Switching (MPLS) network platform. Helping Integra prioritize
applications across its locations, the VPN dramatically increases bandwidth
availability at all banking locations. The optimized connection will allow
employees to communicate and transmit financial information efficiently, and
customers will have an enhanced experience when accessing ATM applications and
other customer-facing networked services.
AT&T also provided the necessary equipment, deployment and integration
management to complete this critical transition for Integra. The new
class-of-service-enabled VPN services and corresponding equipment are fully
managed and monitored by AT&T technicians.
About Integra
Headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, Integra Bank Corporation is the
parent of Integra Bank N.A. As of December 31, 2007, Integra has $3.4 billion
in total assets and operates 80 banking centers and 134 ATMs at locations in
Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. Moody's Investors Service has assigned
an investment grade rating of A3 for Integra Bank's long-term deposits.
Integra Bank Corporation's Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ) rating as of
February 1, 2008, has IBNK outperforming 98.2% of the companies in the Russell
3000 Index and 98.3% of the companies in the banking group. This rating is
updated monthly by Institutional Shareholder Services and measures public
companies' corporate governance performance to a set of corporate governance
factors that reflects the current regulatory environment. Integra Bank
Corporation's common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the
symbol IBNK. Additional information may be found at Integra's web site,
http://www.integrabank.com.
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