Imagine having AT&T at your mercy

Have you ever fantasized about giving a major carrier a taste of its own medicine? A group of professionals gathered on Reddit’s section devoted to networking did so over the weekend and their resulting handiwork is a hoot.

Background: Verizon Wireless is already on this one fellow’s campus in a big way and AT&T wants to up its game there, hopefully with help from the customer. From the initial Reddit user’s telling of the tale:

DigitalDeity: “They’re asking us if we have switch ports available for them to plug into, that we can VLAN back to one of their routers that they’ll put in one of our closets. LOL NO? I’m not really prepared to become a service provider for AT&T’s cellular network.”

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Network World Paul McNamara