Voice - Data Integration White Papers
Internet Model for Control of Converged Networks
Overview
Telecommunications convergence is the merger of legacy-based time division multiplexing (TDM) architecture with today’s packet-switching technology and call-control intelligence, which allows commercial carriers and service providers to consolidate voice and data networks to provide integrated communications services.
Convergence technologies are changing the way telecommunications companies will provide voice and data traffic. The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is one of the most reliable communications networks in existence. Using traditional PSTN services as an access point to the Internet has significantly encouraged the growth of data over costly Class-5 facilities, resulting in the need to reengineer this traditional TDM architecture. Convergence technologies will provide a packet-based architecture that combines the speed and efficiency of broadband with the full-featured signaling system 7 (SS7) architecture to create a hybrid network in which carriers and service providers can choose route options based on cost, efficiency, and fault management.
| Publisher | International Engineering Consortium | File Format | HTML & PDF |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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