That whooshing sound you may not have heard on Sept. 17 was the noise that occurs when an industry goes over a tipping point. On that day, AT&T announced the introduction of “the first software-defined networking solution of its kind in the United States …”
This is part of AT&T’s User Defined Network Cloud service that is designed to cut the time for service provisioning from months to days and provide for self-service provisioning to business customers. Following testing at the University of Texas, Austin, this past summer, AT&T will make its Network on Demand services commercially available in that city by the end of the year and in other areas during 2015.
