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To: The Phoenix who wrote (26879)	7/20/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Techplayer	Respond to of 77400

Gary, Interesting deal. Frontier going all IP by 2002 for voice. Going with LU is the surprise...What are your thoughts? regards, Brian 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. ((--New York newsdesk, (212) 859-1610)) REUTERS