Alex Pannell, BT MPLS product manager, says: “The reality is that, at present, the number of customers actually taking advantage of technologies like differential classes of service (CoS) to enable convergence is relatively low.
Microsoft claims the move will help telecoms operators and large companies to develop VoIP services that are compatible with existing infrastructure, and make it easier for hardware manufacturers to integrate CE 5.0 onto their devices.
Routing voice calls over wireless networks fits with two other wider trends in the telecoms market: voice-over-IP (VoIP) services and fixed/mobile convergence. Steve Nicolle, chief executive of Tatara Systems, said that service providers will begin...
But the ITU has so far refused, claiming that carefully planned converged networks would have no problem identifying traffic. An IP-based unified communications system supplied by integrator Affiniti uses MPLS to support a VoIP network and deliver...
For more information on the convergence challenges facing operators and enterprises, download Quocirca's recent report Convergence or confusion? The whales also bundle and create tariffs that appear to keep costs down, while at the same time they...
Reducing operating expenses by combining fixed and mobile networks is another key driver for operators and users alike, Bubley said, but the strongest push in this direction is currently coming through so-called fixed/mobile convergence (FMC...