Tag: AT&T

December 16, 2020

Plenty of interesting items out there still as we drift toward Christmas. Windstream has officially completed another route out west. They are turning up a high capacity fiber route connecting Salt Lake City with Portland and Seattle in the Pacific […]

December 15, 2020

AT&T has seen significant shifts in demand due to the global pandemic, and it is looking to build a converged, virtualized fiber-based network that serves multiple customer segments while overlaying millimeter-wave 5G in locations that lend themselves to specific experiences […]

December 8, 2020

Whether it’s fixed, wireless or fiber-based, AT&T CEO John Stankey said his management team is squarely focused on broadband as one of its three core areas. Speaking at the UBS Global TMT Conference Tuesday morning, Stankey said the other two […]

December 2, 2020

In the face of Covid-19, global tariffs and trade restrictions, AT&T’s supply chain has weathered the storm over the past several years. While some vendors, such as Cisco, saw their supply chains adversely impacted by tariffs on China and the […]

December 1, 2020

While Cisco has long dabbled in white box deployments as part of its network disaggregation efforts, it’s not quite ready to jump in with both feet. Speaking at Monday’s Credit Suisse 24th Annual Technology Conference, Cisco’s Jonathan Davidson, senior vice […]

November 17, 2020

AT&T announced today it will deliver modern networking capabilities and other advanced technologies to the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under a Task Order from NOAA valued at $311 million over 10 years. The Task Order was made under the […]

November 4, 2020

AT&T is considering the sale of a “significant minority stake” in its DirecTV, AT&T Now (formerly DirecTV Now) and U-verse television operations, according to CNBC. The outlet, which cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter, said that the deal would […]

October 30, 2020

The Wireless Broadband Alliance held its Wireless Global Congress this past week where speakers discussed a number of critical topics relating to Wi-Fi and the future of wireless connectivity, such as OpenRoaming and the benefits of Wi-Fi 6 and 6E. […]

October 22, 2020

On AT&T’s third quarter earnings call Thursday morning, AT&T CEO John Stankey reiterated his appetite for fiber, but said the telco is taking a measured approach. Years ago, AT&T mainly lit fiber up in central offices or select geographic areas, […]

September 30, 2020

Speaking at the Open Networking and Edge Summit (ONES) this week, AT&T Chief Technology Officer of Network Services Andre Fuetsch said that AT&T has deployed its Network Cloud 315 times to date. AT&T uses Airship software for its 5G Network […]