Packages offered will include IP, voice and ATM data services. US 'next generation' voice and data services provider Qwest has announced a joint venture with Dutch incumbent telco, KPN to set up a high speed IP network throughout Europe.
Their ATM stuff is good, their transmission stuff is good, and their voice switching is good," he said. But there is a lot of history and capability buried under there that is hard to ignore. Iain Stevenson, Ovum's research director for next...
There is a long and undistinguished history of powerful incumbents across business attempting to block disruptive technologies that threaten them. The traditional phone companies are trying to stifle innovation in next-generation IP services...
Both of these concepts - reducing retail regulation and improving wholesale services from BT to its competitors - have a bit of a chequered history. To understand why this area attracts so much attention and the likely impact on business users, we...
The study, Service Provider Plans for IP, MPLS and ATM: North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, interviewed 29 carriers from across the world. Half of the service providers polled by Infonetics offer mobile voice and data services and many are...
Another silo replicates these processes for ATM services, and another silo for ADSL and so on. Using the SOA concepts of service componentisation and reuse, the capabilities of the service delivery network and elements can be appropriately...