The hype about software defined networking (SDN) may have simmered down in recent months – but that doesn’t mean service providers have lost interest, as an announcement from AT&T yesterday illustrates. The company said its SDN-based Network on Demand offering…
The new AT&T Dynamic Exchange (ADX) service is an on-demand offering that aims to provide “streamlined, highly secure integration” between customers, suppliers and business partners, according to AT&T Business. ADX uses AT&T Switched Ethernet on Demand or AT&T Virtual Private…
With the two largest fiber broadband providers in the country, Verizon and AT&T, reporting on 3Q 2020 results, we get visibility into fiber broadband momentum, or lack thereof. The news looks promising, as those two carriers alone saw close to…
AT&T has added 5G to 28 more markets, bringing the total population covered to 179 million people across 355 markets. Some areas of the new markets are using dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS), in which the same channel can be used…
AT&T said today that it won millimeter wave spectrum covering 99% of the U.S. population in Auction 103, which was completed several weeks ago. The AT&T Auction 103 spectrum winnings are in the 39 GHz band. AT&T was the second…
AT&T said it has deployed 400 Gbps connectivity on its backbone network between Dallas and Atlanta using white box hardware – which the company said is believed to be a first. “This isn’t a proof of concept, but a significant…
AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson told attendees at an investor conference today that activist investor Elliott Management Corporation has some ideas that “make a lot of sense,” and that AT&T needs to “push further” on those ideas. Other ideas described…
DALLAS, Aug. 27, 2018 — AT&T continues to invest in aggressively expanding our national fiber footprint. There are more than 450,000 U.S. business buildings lit with AT&T fiber, and we’re adding thousands more each month. Within those buildings, AT&T now…
AT&T is moving open ROADM and optical SDN initiatives from the test and demonstration phase to deployment. The first uses of the platform will be in Dallas, the carrier announced last week. The Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) technology aims…
AT&T expects to see opex savings from SDN and NFV in the range of 40% to 50% but it will take a few years to reach that goal, said Krish Prabhu, president of AT&T Labs, yesterday. Prabhu discussed the prospects…
AT&T has won a major contract to provide the FCC with IP connectivity. In the five-year deal, AT&T will interconnect FCC offices and data centers to support mobile and cloud-based applications, offering the FCC the ability to change network and…