[Nortel and PBX Meridian]
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Begin at the beginning, if you want, but if you're pressed for time, click through the screens till you come to Chapter 5, Layer 1. It's a primer on the Information Highway ---- stuff you already know ---- but it takes on new meaning when you're reading it for clues to Spectrum's DSP solutions versus Amati's ADSL.
I take no credit for finding this information. My thanks go to a long-time SSPIF shareholder who doesn't post here, at least not to my knowledge.
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Remote access. This lets you tap into your local network, even when you're not located on-site. Whether you're telecommuting or working in a remote office, you can get the same features and capabilities you would enjoy in the physical enterprise. Remote access, whether dial-up or dedicated connection, will get faster, more reliable and more secure.
Radio, Fiber and Ethernet. Exciting new capabilities in these areas will add new value to our local switching. In-building radio base stations and controllers are now capable of handing off calls to the cellular network. Optical carrier and Ethernet LAN technologies will let us downsize switchrooms and place more of our switching intersections throughout the enterprise--closer to our driveways. Think of data warehouses and data marts. Think of distributed processing. It's the same concept. . . .
Wireless carriers. Wireless communications are changing rapidly too. Digital cellular, TDMA, CDMA, all of them give us significantly more possibilities. As more business communications are conducted on wireless clients, these wireless networks will become an integral part of our enterprise wide area access. How does the billing tie into a centralized call detail and call accounting system? How do we transfer calls between wireless and wireline callers? These are issues we are looking at today to enable the wireless networks of tomorrow. . . .>>>
Okay, I've taken you down some side paths but now you'll have to be patient while I figure out how Spectrum ties in. I'm assuming they've chosen some lucrative markets. . . .
Later --
Pat |
