The company said the improvements are to prepare for growth in both business and residential Internet use. BT has announced it is to spend £5bn over the next five years upgrading its UK network to carry voice and data traffic.
An MPLS network will run over whichever mix of networking technologies it faces, including Ethernet, ATM and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH). The development of 10 Gigabit Ethernet is more impressive," he said.
Existing metro networks have used Sonet/SDH, an expensive but reliable network designed to carry voice traffic reliably on ring networks. Ethernet has seen off all competitors in companies' local area networks (LANs) - with the exception of fibre...
Last week, Peyton Smith, the general manager of Microsoft's embedded systems group, said SIP would be the "the disruptive technology that ushers this convergence" between a corporation's phone and computer system.
Net6 isn't the only SSL VPN equipment maker to tweak its solution to carry voice traffic. On Tuesday, Net6 announced several enhancements to its VPN gateway that enhance the quality of service for all voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic...
Much like wired Ethernet before it, wi-fi networks were not designed specifically to carry voice. Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) is quite a simple idea - it allows businesses to benefit from the reduced communications rates provided by their fixed...
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