Verizon and AT&T are launching programs to offer business customers virtualized network services that can be deployed and managed easily in their data centers.
The two carriers, both of which are pursuing initiatives to transform their own networking infrastructures by leveraging such technologies as software-defined networking (SDN) and network-functions virtualization, announced their network services efforts this month as ways to better enable customers to address the changing demands on their networks brought on by such trends as mobility, data analytics, the Internet of things (IoT) and the cloud.
