November 30, 2023
John Medamana had a long career with AT&T, leading the organization responsible for technical strategy, design, and development of networks and services for AT&T in the role of Vice President. John was a founding member of the team responsible for the creation of AT&T’s high-speed packet data service. John led pioneering work in MPLS, enabling the creation of AT&T’s Network-based enterprise VPN service. He was awarded AT&T’s Strategic Patent Award in 2001 for this work. His most recent work at AT&T focused on Network Cloud, Virtualization, White-box, and Disaggregation.