Every PBX has a switch, and if it has a telephony trunk interface, then it will do both.
FNet works off of different backbones within the US. The "tempest" will work on the WorldComm backbone, so you could say that FNet has its own VPN or Virtual Public Network.
Franklin is setting up its own Network, but thats not actual lineage. Its leased bandwidth, what they actually use on WCOM lines.
So in essence, you could say:
Franlin Internet> Leased lines from different backbone providers.
Franklin Intranet or Network, meaning its "tempest" gateway is going to be used on WCOM's backbone. Other companies like JMBest will setup their own "local" intranet, and when the FNet Network is up and running, JMBest will also be part of the over all FNet Network allowing its own Intranet customers to use Franklin's International Network.
As far as incoming calls be it for circuit-regular, and packet-telephony. The new swtich/servers like LU is setting up, they will be able run traffic accordingly. Having both for telco's is allot more expensive with upgrading but prices will and are coming down.
If you visualize gateways at every city, and then draw an imaginary line between them all, you can see the FNet Network will be a total telecommunications company including data,voice,video,fax. You will have paging capabilities and all the other goodies just like an AT&T.
The idea is to link the entire world be it WCOM backbone or 500 worldwide ISP-intranets. IP gateways with a standard protocol like H.323 will set a new standard in telecommunications.
Something interesting I was think about today after reading an article.
If your speaking of IP Telephony, IP Videoconferencing, etc, all these services demand low latency high performance backbones. If *** the "packet" orginates on backbone A and travels on backbone A to the destination IP telephony, it will work great. If not and there is say a transfer to MAE East, it may not work quite as well.
With that said, that's why I feel FNet Corp. will do quite well in staying with WCOM in all their gateways sites.
Franky seems to be staying head of the most in his network setup.
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