AT&T has picked NEC America to provide it with some legacy optical gear for its new video network.They have worked together before, so the relationship itself isn’t necessarily a surprise, but bringing in legacy gear to support a new service is. Where were the new global vendor giants on this one? Perhaps they were busy trying to integrate themselves.
NEC America is not exactly a mom-and-pop shop, but in the U.S. market, it also doesn’t seem the most likely supplier in a carrier infrastructure deal supporting a new video service, especially with a lot of other global vendor giants embedded in those networks, too. But.
