Instead of making the carriers and telecommunications providers nothing more than dumb pipelines, carriers of data traffic only, say AT&T officials, why not make the network intelligently tackle security problems before those problems can reach a customer
The challenges placed on today's network infrastructures are forever growing. Networks now must not only handle an ever-increasing array and amount of information; there are now the additional challenges of maintaining security and managing a growing number of mobile workers, while at the same time balancing management's demand that the costs of maintaining the network is kept within reasonable limits.