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AT&T and Dell Technologies Collaborate On Open Source Edge Computing
and 5G Software

AT&T and Dell Technologies are jointly ery and management of mobile services vice president, AT&T Network Cloud. “This
exploring the development of key open and new analytics-driven telemetry to en- collaboration will not only enable us to
infrastructure technology areas for the sure consistent service levels. The goal accelerate the AT&T Network Cloud on
next-generation network edge that will be of edge computing is to move compute the Dell Technologies infrastructure, but
required by service providers to support closer to the end user and applications, also further the broader community goal
new use cases and service opportunities in creating a low-latency environment for a of making it as simple as possible for
a cloud-oriented 5G world. Combining their new class of cloud-native applications. operators to deploy and manage open in-
respective expertise, Dell Technologies Combining edge computing and 5G ex- frastructure in support of SDN and other
and AT&T will collaborate in the open tends cloud and “IT-centric” requirements workloads.” “Dell Technologies is work-
source community to: beyond traditional fixed-function hardware ing closely with AT&T to combine our
• Align on an overall vision of network to deliver more dynamic, agile edge com- joint telco industry best practices with
disaggregation and accelerate the pute, storage and networking solutions decades of data center transformation ex-
deployment of open infrastructure and on an unprecedented scale. To capitalize perience to help service providers quickly
AT&T Network Cloud utilizing Airship on the new business opportunities that roll out new breeds of experiential Edge
– a collection of loosely coupled, edge computing and 5G will create, com- and 5G services,” said Kevin Shatzkamer,
but interoperable, open source tools munication service providers need open, vice president, Dell EMC Service Provider
that declaratively automate cloud validated, industry-standard architec- Solutions. “As the world leader in servers,
provisioning and life-cycle management tures, combined with software-defined storage and personal computers, Dell’s
utilizing containers as the unit of networking (SDN), network functions world class supply chain is best positioned
software delivery. virtualization (NFV), cloud-native applica- to deliver the cost structure, predictability
• Catalyze the broader Airship community tions, and Multi-access edge computing and access to emerging infrastructure
to accelerate Airship toward a 2.0 release, (MEC). “Dell Technologies’ addition to the technologies required to enable the transi-
delivering a streamlined aggregator of Airship community reaffirms the industry’s tion to a more open, disaggregated mobile
best-of-breed open technologies for growing trust and investment in the open network.”
declaratively deploying and managing infrastructure model,” said Amy Wheelus,
Kubernetes environments and cloud
software.
• Jointly develop and enhance additional
open source efforts, including Metal3-io
and OpenStack Ironic, and integrate the
Kubernetes Cluster API.
• Deliver open source automation
capabilities across the stack – from
bare metal to network to storage – on
Dell Technologies infrastructure.
5G is not simply an evolution from 4G. 5G
requires massive transformation. It de-
mands new, distributed architectures that
use software-defined, disaggregated and
open infrastructure to automate the deliv-

AT&T, T-Mobile Deliver Cross-Network Call Authentication Technology

AT&T and T-Mobile began rollout of of unwanted robocalls by itself, it is a key time as more device providers participate,
cross-network call authentication based step toward giving customers greater and as more network providers implement
on SHAKEN/STIR standards – another confidence and control over the calls they the standards. The FCC has recommended
big step toward protecting consumers answer. For example, a call that is illegally SHAKEN/STIR standards to digitally
from unwanted robocalls. SHAKEN/STIR “spoofed” – or shows a faked number – will validate phone calls. The acronym stands
technology lets consumers know that an fail the SHAKEN/STIR Caller ID verification for Signature-based Handling of Asserted
incoming call is really coming from the and will not be marked as verified. By Information Using toKENs (SHAKEN) and
number listed on the caller ID display – contrast, verification will confirm that a call the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited
not a spoofed robocall or scammer. While is really coming from the identified number (STIR).
authentication won’t solve the problem or entity. More calls will be verified over

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