Ameritech was one of the seven baby bells created when the original AT&T was broken apart. It is now apart of the new AT&T via the SBC/Ameritech merger.
My first job was at Ameritech. Let me correct that, my first post college job was at Ameritech. Prior to graduating college, I was a bus-boy, a caddy, a painter, a swim pool worker, a bagel maker, a do-whatever guy at a tree nursery, a RA, a pizza delivery guy, and (for one month) a telemarketer.
My last Ameritech stint was in Corporate Development. One of the projects I worked on was Ameritech’s entry into Security Alarms. The notion was that the physical security company was like telecommunications and therefore Ameritech should do a roll-up in the space. It sounded flimsy to me, but Ameritech went onto acquire several companies and launch Ameritech Security Link. SBC/AT&T thought this was not such a good idea, and they sold it.
However, my views changed over the years. I think Ameritech was right all along. Physical Security and Communications are converging. Ameritech was just a decade and a half off in its timing.
Cisco is moving ascertively into physical secuirty. Read Rob Hagen’s post on the Managed Services Blog for insight into this. A growing number of telecom-orientated managed services providers are following Ciscos lead. Envysion, which provides a software as a service video surveillance solution–which is called Managed Video as a Service–is actively working with several of them.
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