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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (1513)	10/12/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3178

All, there are some timely and easy-reading VoIP articles in this week's Telephony Magazine in the October 12th *IP.net* Section. Go to: internettelephony.com ... click on the IP.net section, and scroll down to the Oct 12 articles. I've posted the line up here as well as the introductory passage. Take a close look at the first graphic in the "Dangerous Waters" article. It says a whole lot, on the surface, but it may not be saying enough... IMHO. What do you think? Enjoy, and Best Regards, Frank Coluccio ================================= Article Lineup: INTRODUCTION DANGEROUS WATERS Access charges and other economic uncertainties get ready to take a bite out of the IP telephony industry's bright future. TWISTED RELATIONSHIP Intelligent network and IP voice technologies come together, but will they complement or complicate each other? GET WITH THE PROGRAM? The telecom industry has already rolled out the red carpet for open switching, but will programmable switches be welcome in the IP market? PBX REBORN IP technology steps into the corporate world to breathe some new life into those stubbornly old-fashioned PBXs. CALL OF THE WILD VIP Calling's dynamic duo takes a walk on the wild side with a humble handful of telecom talent and big ideas about international wholesale. October 12, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION - THE JOB AHEAD DAN 0'SHEA Traditional network operators have had too many reasons to ignore the nascent industry transition to IP technology. The significant cost issues of migrating to new network technologies are surpassed only by the confusion and labor-intensive task of bringing those technologies into an existing network environment. As new carriers have begun to build extensive IP networks, the existing carrier industry has mostly stayed out of the fray. Some of those carriers have engaged in intensive study of IP and how it may one day become a significant part of their network strategies. Others, however, see enough value in their existing networks over the next 10 years to put off such analysis. Whatever the timing for the actual migration, it remains an eventuality. This fact does pose some great challenges for traditional network operators. In this issue of IP.net, we explore the challenge of integrating IP technology with SS7, the long-standing signaling protocol of public networks. Industry experts have spent much time discussing exactly how and at what pace this integration should be carried out. Still, it seems as though the job of fitting together the technology standards is even more complex an issue than many first thought. As carriers continue to comb through the IP-SS7 puzzle, it will be interesting to see technologists who have always worked for Bell companies or other incumbent carriers wrestle with the idea that their networks are in the midst of wholesale change. Over the past few years, much attention has been granted to the perceived conflict of the Bellheads vs. the Netheads. The gist of this conflict was always that the Bellheads never get it--they just don't understand the pace and persuasiveness of new technology development. However, as we look at what will happen with IP technology in the next few years, the future is almost entirely in the hands of these same technologists. They will determine, in the relatively short term, whether or not IP networks will be an industry novelty separating a band of new carriers from the traditional carrier industry, or a movement that separates the carrier industry of the 21st Century from that of the previous 100 years. This industry has already excelled behind a whole century of technology evolution, and IP is the next step in this evolution. That is what the technologists of today need to remember as they plan the networks of tomorrow. As with any big job of technology integration, hurdles will continue to be uncovered as the industry moves forward, but the industry's failure to overcome hurdles in the past is what has led us to a network environment in which private deployments have been much more aggressive than public ones. That needs to change for the benefit of customers and the carriers that need to serve them well. In that, there is no choice but to tackle a difficult job with everything you have. --------------------------end intro