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Dell Flying to 5G Cloud on AT&T-Led ‘Airship’

Dell is signing on to Airship, an AT&T-led servers, focusing on hardware and node what I want, I want X number of machines,
initiative to automate provisioning telco management for deploying and managing I want these networks, this type of storage,
cloud infrastructure for 5G. With Dell on open infrastructure. Airship, launched you define that in YAML, feed that into a
board, the Airship project plans to extend this year, with version 2 due in mid–2020, machine and the machine spits out a cloud
automation from cloud infrastructure is a software project for declaratively that meets those definitions,” Van Wyk
software to hardware as well. “The crux provisioning cloud infrastructure, stating says. In addition to Dell, AT&T is working on
of it is we’re bringing Dell into the Airship the parameters for servers, storage and Airship with SUSE, Intel, Ericsson, Mirantis
community, to accelerate the overall networks in broad strokes and letting the and 99Cloud, as well as launch partners
growth of the SDN ecosystem by making infrastructure itself automatically decide Intel and SK Telecom. Dell brings expertise
it as easy as possible for operators to on detailed parameters for provisioning in hardware, RAID storage and BIOS. “How
deploy and manage infrastructure,” Ryan resources. Airship manages lifecycle do you interact at the lowest level with the
Van Wyk, AT&T system VP, network cloud including creation, update, configuration hardware to configure it?” Van Wyk says.
software engineering, tells Light Reading. and major upgrades, using plain text files
Dell provides expertise in bare metal called YAML documents. “You say this is

AT&T Introduces 5G in New York City

AT&T is lighting up 5G in parts of New
York City. The newly available service
starts in limited areas initially, delivering
additional capacity and lower latency
over 5G millimeter wave (what we call
5G+) beginning with business customers
and developers. “As a densely-populated,
global business and entertainment hub,
New York City stands to benefit greatly
from having access to 5G, and we’ve
been eager to introduce the service here,”
said Amy Kramer, president, AT&T New
York. “While our initial availability in NYC
is a limited introduction at launch, we’re
committed to working closely with the City
to extend coverage to more neighborhoods
throughout the five boroughs.” Kramer an incubator for exploring and developing Preferred plan. Go to att.com/5GNews to
added, “While we are pleased to take the new entertainment experiences. With learn more about how we are unlocking
first step today in NYC, we maintain that today’s news, NYC becomes AT&T’s 21st new experiences on 5G. AT&T has invested
the City is in critical need of a strategy that city with 5G+. We will also introduce 5G nearly $1.4 billion in our New York wireless
allows wireless carriers to add capacity broadly over sub-6GHz in the coming and wired networks during 2016-2018.
where it’s most needed - particularly in months, with plans to offer nationwide 5G These investments boost reliability,
densely populated and trafficked areas - in in the first half of 2020. Providing 5G over coverage, speed and overall performance
order for 5G to reach its full potential for multiple spectrum bands will enable our for residents and businesses. We’ve also
our customers.” In addition to our plans customers to benefit from the ultra-fast improved critical services that support
to provide 5G across NYC, we previously speeds of 5G millimeter wave as well as Public Safety and first responders using
announced the upcoming opening of the broader coverage ranges of 5G sub- the FirstNet communications platform. In
a WarnerMedia Innovation Lab in early 6. Select customers in NYC can access 2018, AT&T made more than 4,800 wireless
2020. The 20,000 square foot facility will our 5G+ network today using the Galaxy network upgrades across New York State.
be located in Chelsea and will serve as S10 5G on our AT&T Business Unlimited

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