The Finnish handset giant said it was buying Amber for its fault-tolerant routing technology - central to developing packet-switched IP networks. Nokia recently made a number of redundancies from its own networking division.
In short, this pipe is fat, fast and cheap, leading to rumors that it may be the packet protocol to push Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and its circuit-switched cronies out of their exclusive oasis they call the WAN.
US telco Sprint has inked a deal with Nortel Networks worth $1.1bn to change its entire customer base from circuit switched services to Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP). Mike Fuller, president of Sprint's local telecoms division, said in a...
TD-SCDMA supports data transmission at speeds of up to 2 megabits per second and includes support for both circuit-switched traffic, such as voice or video, and packet-switched traffic from the Internet.
It is aiming to start moving customers onto IP in 2006, and to switch off its circuit-switched voice network by 2010. Marconi sells a product called the SoftSwitch, which it says can help telcos replace legacy PSTN networks and offer applications...
Interestingly BT's 21CN (21st Century Network) project, which will see the UK's legacy circuit-switching PSTN phone network replaced with an IP-based system, seems to be quietly losing its "N". The results were the first to show the performance of...