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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1887)	1/30/2001 10:11:56 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

AT&T ANNOUNCES ENTERPRISE VOIP SERVICES AT&T will add VoIP to its entire portfolio of managed network services over the coming year. The service will use Cisco Systems' 2600 and 3600 routers and the H.323 protocol with Fast Connect capability. Support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard is planned for an upcoming release. AT&T also began offering Virtual Communication Services (VCS) for the Virtual Office, which lets telecommuters use their corporate PBX via the Internet. The application uses an IP-VPN secure tunnel to connect to the corporate PBX and an onscreen “soft phone” to provide office phone features. AT&T is tightening SLA commitments for its managed Internet services to include at least 99.99% network availability; no more than 60-millisecond round-trip domestic latency; no more than 120-millisecond transatlantic latency, and no more than 0.7% packet loss per month. AT&T also promises service provisioning guarantees of 32 business days for T-1 access, 42 business days for T-3 access, and 63 business days for OC-3 access. [FAC: Those installation intervals are nothing to write home about, BTW. Not in an age when others are talking about 1-to-2 day bandwidth on demand and dynamic capacity provisioning under customer network management (CNM) control.] att.com AT&T, January 30, 2001

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1887)	2/1/2001 5:53:19 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Frank, I finally did it, I told the local phone company to take a hike (sort of) and now my business will run on one DSL line, one fax line (looking for an online replacement) and a main number that is wireless. No more Centrex or multiline phones. When I announced it to a friend he asked me if there was such a thing as a wireless server that you could connect to your tethered existing phone lines. I thought if there isn't perhaps there should be because I have to tell you that more and more of my clients are talking about doing what I did today. I have to confess it feels great to be down to one $18 a month fax line from Verizon.