Wednesday, March 08, 2006

The End of Line for Old Phone Switches?


5-ESS Switch
Image source: www.lucent.com


Clive Akass writes on the PCW "The Test Bed" blog:

A $300m drop in revenues from traditional telephone switches for telecoms giant Lucent highlighted one of the less obvious trends at Cebit.

The fall last year was not due simply to a massive move from circuit-switched telephony to packet-switched Voice over IP.

Chief operating office Frank D’Amelio explained that all over Europe telcos are either moving all their infrastructure to IP or planning to do so.

More here.

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