AT&T today announced that Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., a developer and publisher of computer and video games, has selected AT&T to provide a managed hosting solution for the company's online gaming platform in North America.

Under terms of the multi-year agreement, AT&T will host and provide monitoring of Konami's online gaming platform, which will allow multiple users to play each other in real time over the Internet. The AT&T solution also supports Konami's business continuity plan by providing automatic data backup and rerouting for the company's primary data center in Tokyo, Japan. AT&T will host Konami's gaming platform at its Bay Area Internet Data Center (IDC).

"AT&T has the reliable, robust infrastructure we need to launch into the online gaming market," said Daniel Laskowski, Director of the North America Data Center for Konami Digital Entertainment. "And AT&T's numerous locations worldwide provide Konami with future growth possibilities internationally."