CenturyLink Outage, AT&T Layoffs, Avaya Engage Lead January's Top 12 [telecom]

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January marked a big month for traffic to our site, with many of you eager to see some bad news (layoffs and network outages) but also good (new hires and new technologies to sell).

The biggest layoff news concerned AT&T, while CenturyLink was at the heart of the outage news.

Plantronics offered up a whiz-bang new product that stemmed from its massive Polycom acquisition, and Five9 hired a Cisco vet as its new CTO.