All: With the acquisition of ldnet, and other onboard telephony-companies, its the consolidation of multiple networks that seems to be the strategy of Franklin. <in a nutshell
Frank saw quite a few months ago that dead-end solutions i.e. the "channelbank-itself" was not the way to optimize performance in managing consolidated networks.
Since LDNet is a "facilities based carrier< that means it owns long distance call switching "equipment and transmissions lines" regionally or nationally. The AT&T's of the world are called "common carriers" but that will also include FNet Corp., and guess what? Just like these major facilities based carriers, FNet will sell their service's to business and residential users and other "long distance companies" which resale those services.
If were talking about a backbone, or skeleton fingers, it really doesn't matter one bit. The way FNet is setting up their service's, its a profit after .01 cent.
Thats why the more I read about the Magruder-Gang who worked for MCI's "frame relay" group before joining FNet, the more I understand why Frank hired them.
Allot of talk about DSL, ATM, and Frame, but understanding cost effectiveness for a consolidation of networks, VoFR (voice-over-frame-relay) is quite compeling.
Franklin is trying to setup a Global Network that has the most "efficient", "reasonably deployed", "low maintance cost", "dynamic functionality" that technology has to offer.
I think thats one of the main reasons why the Magruder-Gang is aboard, that this is their Cup-O-Tea. Setting up a frame-network internationally, and understanding the logistics of it all. One of the reason's why I'm excited about Frame is that its getting allot of support from countries where networking is still quite expensive.
If you understand that using VoFR, you will have a return on your investment in less than 6 months which is commonplace, then you begin to understand "quicker profits".
Bottomline tells you that in a competitive environment, you can't attract the most profitable customers unless you meet their quaility requirements. But if you don't serve them efficiently, your costs may run to high and take "gross profits" out of the picture.
FNet Corp. will have many remote sites or branches being interconnected to one or more central site locations via frame relay. With these corporations/organizations, VoFR represents an incremental reduction in voice costs, especially if they have already migrated their branch data traffic to frame relay.
Cost effectiveness is what Franklin is building worldwide. I think in the long term, it will pay off in higher profit margins for the next "NexGenTelco".
On a side note, every time I pick up a communications magazine, Xantel has a CTI product slated "editors choice". As the boss said the other day, "we are dam lucky to have the VP of Xantel on our side, with Peter Buswell".
I think its one hell of a team now, and its only the first quarter in IP-Telephony History!
Next stop........? Pure Telecommunications! Grease the Transmission!
Its the FNet Vending Maching.
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