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freehe
5/28/2017 5:09:52 PM
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AT&T Awards
"AT&T and the Department of Commerce and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) announced that the carrier will build a dedicated broadband network for communications between police, firefighters and emergency medical services (EMS). The initiative is an effort to confront the chronic problem of poor public network performance during emergencies."
Improving the EMS communications will be a huge help for communities. Does the contract extend to rural areas as well?
JohnBarnes
5/29/2017 5:42:51 PM
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Re: AT&T Modernize CDC
freehe,
BINGO.
I found myself thinking that the AT&T spokesbeings sounded very much like many research university IT departments, which notoriously will try to leverage the budget into getting them the latest toys and the most impressive stuff while ignoring such basics as the need not to interrupt ongoing research, the need to maintain data compatability baselines, or even what the researchers actually use the software and hardware for and whether that might be perfectly fine as is. CDC being bigger than most university science departments and AT&T way bigger than most IT departments, the numbers are larger, but the fundamental attitude -- "don't bother with what you do, your job is to do it with what we want you to buy" -- seems very much alive.
I wish CDC had commented -- assuming they could have been allowed to comment honestly.
JohnBarnes
5/29/2017 5:45:51 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
freehe,
Great question.
And here's another:
Does the contract include anything about deployment, or is this a way for AT&T to develop a package at taxpayer expense and then sell it to the taxpayers at guess-who's additional expense? If CDC will be hosting the research effort, should AT&T be able to sell it for a profit?
dcawrey
5/30/2017 12:59:05 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
It's good to see the government update these systems. I know they are old school. They lack the proper efficiency and modern features that IT departments need today. Hopefully AT&T can do a good job modernizing.
vnewman
5/30/2017 1:21:54 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
Frankly, it is about time - the government is notoriously slow in making updates to any of its systems and in doing so, affects all of the entities that do business with them even in the private sector.
"They have a large legacy base of infrastructure" = all systems are old and outdated
elizabethv
5/30/2017 4:16:24 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
@vnewman - You're right, government agencies tend to lag in technological development, outside of the DOJ that is. And realistically, the CDC is a department that needs to latest technological developments. This will benefit everyone in the long run.
elizabethv
5/30/2017 4:20:00 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
@JohnBarnes - as someone who is typically anti-corporation, I don't really see them selling whatever is the result of their research at a profit. I think most people who take grants to research anything end up selling the resulting product at a profit. Which I really just see as fair. They need to stay in business afterall.
JohnBarnes
5/30/2017 5:22:51 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
Dcawrey,
Most upgrades are either adding needless features that some engineer thought were cool, or fixing bugs that should not have been there in the first place. They're just an excuse for the vampire tech companies to come back and feast some more.
Particularly in research, backward compatibility -- the ability to seamlessly reprocess archival data -- is vital. Having the latest and being up to date is not.
Government is one of the few places big enough and strong enough to force vendors to supply what is needed instead of the pointless "progress" peddled by the engineers and marketers.
JohnBarnes
5/30/2017 10:14:36 PM
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Re: AT&T Awards
ElizabethV,
Well, here we disagree. What is developed with public money and at public expense ought to be available to the public -- but the big tech companies have been finding ways to get the public to pay once for development and again for deployment for a very long time.
AT&T's $119M Plan to Modernize Centers for Disease Control
I think this is very interesting witht he technology these days and will be great in thew future. The results will be shown in the future and i cant wait to see how this plays out in the future and will it succeed or will it go down. I also thinkthe plan is great and with the technology these days will be a good plan to moderize the society and the specs will be soon great again.
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