AT&T Wins $2 Million Global Networking Contract from Tuthill Corp.

February 24, 2005; 09:33 AM

CHICAGO - AT&T announced today it has been awarded a three-year, $2 million global networking contract by Tuthill Corp., a leading industrial equipment manufacturer.  With this contract, AT&T wins all of Tuthill's data services from MCI and becomes the company's primary networking services provider.

Under the agreement, AT&T will integrate 30 Tuthill locations across North America and Europe with an Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN). 

Based in Burr Ridge, Ill., Tuthill manufactures a wide variety of industrial equipment including couplings, pumps, pneumatic systems, plastics, controls for cars and buses and heavy-duty suspension and axles for trailers, trucks and RVs.
The new high-speed networking platform provides Tuthill with increased bandwidth to support real-time engineering and business process collaboration and help manage its supply chain, inventory and distribution systems domestically and in Europe.

With the AT&T networking solution, Tuthill gains even greater levels of security and speed for the company's e-mail, proprietary applications, customer databases and billing functions. The solution also supports Tuthill's business continuity plan by providing automatic backup and rerouting to another facility in the event of a network disruption or disaster.  It also paves the way for Tuthill to evolve to a converged voice and data networking platform by deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services in the future.

"We had an immediate need for increased bandwidth to give our employees faster and more secure access to our company databases and information, " said Chuck Oler, Tuthill senior vice president and CIO for Global Sourcing . "AT&T has the global footprint and technology to deliver a solution that could met our needs in a low-cost and efficient way."

About AT&T
For more than 125 years, AT&T (NYSE "T") has been known for unparalleled quality and reliability in communications.  Backed by the research and development capabilities of AT&T Labs, the company is a global leader in local, long distance, Internet and transaction-based voice and data services.

About Tuthill Corp.
Tuthill Corporation is one of the world's leading producers of controls, couplings, linkages, pneumatic systems, pumps, transport and vacuum systems, and transfer systems for handling fluids and gases.  The company also produces controls for cars and busses and heavy-duty suspension systems and axles for trailers trucks RVs and off-road and specialty vehicles. The Tuthill Plastics Group is a full service custom injection molding company with expertise ranging from critical tolerance engineering components to standard consumer commodity products.