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Convergence

Overview In the past, businesses, service providers and individual consumers thought of voice, video and data as separate entities whose paths would never cross. Video arrived via the airwaves and coaxial cable, while voice and data arrived via separate phone lines.

However, with recent advancements in multimedia software, network routing and data cabling technologies, these three lines of communication are closer than ever to traveling on one network infrastructure. The term for this form of single network integration has become known as convergence.

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Publisher	Anixter	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2001	Downloads	9
Format	White Papers
Topics	Voice - Data Integration, ASPs, Multimedia

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