SANTA CLARA — AT&T is considering offering bare metal switches and servers to consumers as customer premises equipment for the carrier’s services.

At the Open Network Summit conference here, Andre Fuetsch, AT&T senior vice president, Architecture & Design, said the economics of commodity bare metal switching, as well as the scale, performance and programmability, make it appealing for the carrier to sell into the customer premises.

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