IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE five to six years for converged carrier networks .... said Jeanette Symons, chief technology officer
and co-founder of Ascend Communications, during a keynote address here at
NetWorld + Interop.
Symons rattled off a long list of voice services common to the traditional
voice network that must be replicated in IP before carriers deploy a single
voice, video, and data network. Those include standards, multivendor
interoperability, availability, consistent service, real-time service, bandwidth
control, and delay, jitter, and error control.
Not a good sign for LU/ASND. I believe that LU's management takes a different view.
She has to know at CTO that standards work is in moving very quickly which will translate into interoperability. As for consistent service - that's the beauty of IP..SP's can offer unique services and pricing will be based upon services - not bandwidth. Real-time, bandwidth control, delay, jitter, error control... all these have been solved aleady. It won't take 5-6 years until carriers begin deploying and offering end to end multiservice broadband access.
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