AT&T
Executive perspectives from AT&T across NextGenInfra's event and research showcases.
5 video interviews · 2019–2023
New Middle Mile: How Does AT&T Deliver End-to-End Circuit Quality?
- AT&T uses LSO APIs to integrate partners, vendors, and competitors for end-to-end circuit quality.
- AT&T's Business Center lets customers create a virtual cross connect in any participating cloud provider.
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Jeremiah Ginn, Cybersecurity Evangelist from AT&T, explains how they deliver end-to-end circuit quality through their defined core, leveraging LSO APIs to integrate with partners, vendors, and competitors, and their solution that allows for automatic provisioning of connections to different cloud service providers. AT&T's Business Center also gives customers the ability to create a virtual cross connect in any participating cloud service provider through orchestration in the API.
Enterprise Networking Alphabet Soup: AT&T & Cisco's Game-Changing SD-WAN Collaboration
- AT&T collaborates with Cisco on Meraki integration and mobile-first WebEx solutions.
- The partnership improves failover and business continuity while retiring traditional wireline infrastructure.
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Mike Troiano, Head of Business Products at AT&T, highlights the company's collaboration with Cisco to enhance software-defined networking through Meraki integration and a focus on mobile-first solutions in WebEx. The partnership aims to improve failover, business continuity, and user experience while streamlining operations by retiring traditional wireline infrastructure.
Macro Trends Enabled by SD-WAN
- AT&T's Rupesh Chokshi names four macro IT trends: multicloud adoption, zero-trust network access, and automation.
- He explains what SD-WAN brings forward to enable these trends.
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In this video, Rupesh Chokshi, Vice President of AT&T Cybersecurity, discusses four macro IT trends including multicloud adoption, zero-trust network access, automation and what SD-WAN brings forward to enable these trends.
The Importance of Service Assurance for Cybersecurity
- AT&T's Rupesh Chokshi says large data volumes, endpoints, and interactions heighten the focus on service assurance.
- Service assurance and cybersecurity are critical to ongoing network management.
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With large amounts of data, endpoints and interactions taking place on a network, the focus on service assurance becomes even more important. In this video, Rupesh Chokshi, Vice President of AT&T Cybersecurity, discusses why service assurance and cybersecurity are critical in the ongoing management of the network. Download AvidThink's 2021 Service Assurance Report to explore strategies on building future-ready service assurance for business and technology leaders.
Orchestration, Automation and ONAP
- AT&T credits network automation with enabling it to scale its network.
- AT&T reviews two years of progress on its automation and orchestration platform and its use of ONAP.
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Network Automation is what enables AT&T to scale their network. Chris Rice, Senior Vice President at AT&T, takes a look at the progress their automation and orchestration platform has made in the last two years — from where it was to where it is now — and discusses how AT&T uses ONAP.