IDG Contributor Network: Inside AT&T's open source, software-defined transformation

John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President, Technology and Operations at AT&T said during his keynote at Open Networking Summit earlier this month that they are going through a data explosion at AT&T. The has been more than 150,000% growth in data traffic on AT&T’s wireless network from 2007 through 2015. Out of all this traffic, over 60% is video. And virtual reality (VR) promises to push networks to their limits.
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