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Frontier , Lucent in network pact
20, 1999 06:12 AM
ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 20 (Reuters) - Phone company Frontier Corp. said Tuesday
its Frontier Communications unit and Lucent Technologies Inc. would design and build
an Internet protocol (IP) telephony network.
Frontier said in a statement that the network was expected to carry all of Frontier's
voice traffic by 2002.
The new IP network also provides Frontier with a software services creation platform.
New products will be developed in the network, then deployed.
Lucent will also supply Frontier with trunking gateway technology from Sonus
Networks Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Westford, Mass.
At the core of Frontier's IP telephony solution is Lucent's softswitch, which runs on
standard computer work stations.
"Beginning with e-mail in the third quarter, we'll offer outsourced IP applications that,
when combined with this VoIP platform, will evolve into unified messaging by early
2000," said Rolla Huff, Frontier's president and chief operating officer.
Frontier said it would first deploy IP telephony in three U.S. cities next month and plans
to expand its network to 15 to 20 cities by the first half of 2000.
"We expect to have 100 percent of our traffic traversing our IP network by year-end
2002," said Brian Fink, Frontier's vice president of systems and products.
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