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Telecom giant AT&T launches suite of blockchain solutions for enterprise customers

Thu, 27 Sep 2018, 06:28 am UTC

American telecommunications giant AT&T has announced a suite of blockchain solutions to help its customers solve their complex business problems.

The solutions have been designed to work with technology from IBM and Microsoft. AT&T said that it has combined its edge-to-edge capabilities with blockchain technology, adding that its Internet of Things (IoT) solutions will add automation and critical monitoring capabilities.

“Blockchain improves security and enables better management of transactions through complex processes,” said Andy Daudelin, vice president, Alliances Business Development, AT&T Business. “Utilizing our global network and IoT capabilities, AT&T enhances blockchain by providing edge-to-edge solutions that automate the tracking and that can even monitor the environmental conditions throughout the process."

According to the official release, AT&T's consulting team can design, deploy and manage:

IBM Blockchain: AT&T Solutions can record data on the IBM Blockchain Platform, an enterprise-grade blockchain platform that supports a broad range of industry use cases including supply chain, provenance and logistics. AT&T said that it is also integrating its AT&T Asset Management Operations Center with IBM Maximo Network on Blockchain and Maximo Asset Health Insights to create secure and accountable service provider networks for infrastructure asset management.

Microsoft Azure blockchain technology – Built of Microsoft’s open, trusted cloud platform, Azure supports a broad set of enterprise ledger protocols including Ethereum, HyperLedger Fabric, Corda, Quorum, and Chain, and offers diverse topologies for dev/test, single member, and multi-member consortiums. Integrations with AT&T's IoT platforms aim to bring additional transparency and accountability to even the most complex supply chains.

These blockchain solutions are now available in the market today and can be used across vertical industries such as manufacturing, retail, and healthcare. With these solutions, AT&T aims to help enterprise customers in their efforts to automate and digitalize their business processes using blockchain technologies.

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