AT&T Opens API Marketplace to Complement SDN Portfolio

AT&T today launched a new API marketplace designed to provide businesses with software code to add new services on their sites and applications. It built the marketplace on Ribbon Communications’ Kandy, a cloud-based communications software development platform. “We see the AT&T API Marketplace as a complement to AT&T’s current SDN portfolio,” Greg Johnson, director of voice and collaboration at AT&T Business, wrote in response to questions. “This service rides over the top of [SD-WAN and security] technologies functioning at the application layer.” He cited two-factor authentication as an example of AT&T’s efforts to help businesses decrease fraud on their websites and applications.