Innovative technologies for preventing network outages

AT&T and companies engaged in similar communications enterprises are in business for two principal reasons: to satisfy customers by providing the products and services they desire, including uninterrupted end-to-end telecommunication services; and, in so doing, to earn the best possible return on investment, thereby rewarding shareholders and employees alike. As the fields of computing and telecommunications converge in the emerging new global networks, scientific advances often result from the aggressive pursuit of these goals.