AT&T Labs
Research & development division of AT&T
AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerly AT&T Laboratories, Inc.) is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including Bedminster, New Jersey; Middletown, New Jersey; Manhattan, New York; Warrenville, Illinois; Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; San Ramon, California; and Redmond, Washington. The main research division, made up of around 450 people, is based across the Bedminster, Middletown, San Francisco, and Manhattan locations.
AT&T Labs traces its history from AT&T Bell Labs. Much research is in areas traditionally associated with networks and systems, ranging from the physics of optical transmission to foundational topics in computing and communications. Other research areas address the technical challenges of large operational networks and the resulting large data sets.
Achievements
Researchers at AT&T Labs wrote Hancock, a data mining language that sorted through 100 million records nightly from the parent company's long-distance phone network. The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (now operated by the OEIS foundation) is the creation of former AT&T Researcher Neil Sloane.
Researchers at AT&T Labs have successfully transmitted 100 Gigabits per second over a single optical link.
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