All of which leaves enterprises in line for more service choice, as multiservice nodes go live, and in a longer-term IP future, more flexibility and lower prices. We can offer more bandwidth for less money because our operating expenditures are...
Carriers using the technology can reduce operating expenses by sharing bandwidth resources across the network. The carrier will be using Cisco 12000, 7300 and 7200 series routers and its Catalyst 4500 series switches.
Steve Anderson, IT partner at construction and property consultancy Davis Langdon, said the technological convergence of voice and data is a logical step that has been held back by commercial barriers.
All that is set to change with the advent of carrier-class Ethernet services and transport. A new telco-friendly version is emerging that will support third-party services, and offer high reliability at a fraction of the cost of existing networks.
There are questions over whether companies will actually implement convergence anytime soon. Alex Pannell, BT MPLS product manager, says: “The reality is that, at present, the number of customers actually taking advantage of technologies like...
Slow progress of IP has been blamed on problems such as poor voice quality, an inability to scale up beyond more than 100 agent positions as well as limited routing and queuing features. While ease of deployment and network cost savings make for a...