The carrier is ahead of schedule in virtualizing its network, and unveils its ECOMP software platform for building a software-centric infrastructure.
AT&T’s high-profile effort to transform its infrastructure into a software-defined environment is humming along.At the Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2016 this week, John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T technology and operations, gave attendees an update on where the carrier stands with its multi-year Domain 2.0 project to embrace such technologies as software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization (NFV) within its data centers.
In an accompanying post on the company blog March 15, Donovan wrote that AT&T is ahead of schedule in virtualizing its network, and that trials of the carrier’s CORD project—which is being used to help fuel AT&T’s fiber-optic network project—will kick off in the next few weeks.
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