Liberty Travel Extends Contract with AT&T for Enhanced Data and Network Services

There will be further expansion of the contract between AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Lib/Go Travel, Liberty Travel and Gogo Worldwide Vacations, the top company in the travel industry. The new contract will ensure that AT&T will be the implementer and manager of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-enabled network services- together with the resiliency solutions-for the more than 230 retail locations of Liberty. The existing six year relationship between AT&T and Liberty Travel has actually been extended by the contract for another three years.



The services of AT&T’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) through its MLPS technology will gather Liberty Travel’s entire base of wholesale and retail agencies in just one and the same Internet Protocol (IP)-based architecture. This improved network performance will greatly enhance and facilitate the use of the service not only by Liberty Travel but more importantly by its customers too. This upgraded service will enable the users to get a consistent performance throughout the entire network that will give priority to network traffic and make more efficient the transmission of data in all the managed and unmanaged locations of Liberty Travel.

According to Valerian Thomas, the chief information officer for Liberty Travel, “the service given by AT&T in all the years as network provider for the company has not only been dependable and suitable to the needs of the company but has contributed to our cost reduction effort. The move towards the MPLS will allow Liberty to put into actuality the Next Generation Travel System all over North America and be able to deliver superior service to the customers. We are greatly pleased to be able to further our working relationship with AT&T.

As an added enhancement to the Liberty Travel core network, AT&T will likewise put into effect network-resiliency plans to make sure that the service will always be available to the Liberty team and its customers.

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