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To: w2j2 who wrote (2134)	3/5/1999 9:43:00 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 14638

From Price-Waterhouse Nortel To Help Carriers Upgrade to IP Posted March 03, 1999 08:00 AM PST Traditional carriers planning to overhaul their networks for IP support will be targeted by Nortel Networks as potential buyers of its new Succession Network. The product line includes server-based calling software to handle IP services transmissions, network management tools and a gateway to link different network elements. ATM-based networking hardware rounds out the offering. Positioned as an open, standards-based solution, Succession Network aims to help telecommunications providers offer the revenue-generating telephony services that drive the bulk of their business, as well as new end-to-end IP services, without the expense of a data overlay network. Succession Network also unifies telecommunications provider networks for high-performance converged telephony and data services. Nortel Networks claims that Succession Network can slash annual operating costs by up to 45 percent and capital costs by up to 50 percent. "Studies show that telecommunications providers have invested a trillion dollars in the global public network. They cannot throw that investment away-and they should not trade the reliability of their networks for the promises of companies that don't have experience delivering highly reliable, carrier-grade networks," says John Roth, vice chairman and CEO of Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based Nortel Networks. "We're extending the value of that investment with a solution that can be deployed with other vendors' central office and ATM equipment as well as our own. This will accelerate the reality of next-generation, high- performance Internet and telephony services around the world." Succession Network's Succession Call Server supports distributing functions that are normally contained within a node--such as call processing and service logic--across the unified network into a distributed architecture. The technique is designed to reduce the number of switching stages and network requirements while optimizing network survivability through network-wide backup and re-routing systems. The server also handles traffic within and between both TDM and packet networks without the need for a separately managed overlay system. Nortel Networks says the Succession Call Server marks the initial phase of a comprehensive new unified services architecture based on the delivery of services across the network from a variety of distributed IP servers. In an effort to stimulate the development of new services and speed the integration of existing services, Nortel Networks plans to offer Succession Network customers a toolkit of open network applications programming interfaces (APIs) based on a multi-vendor, multi-platform technology. The company says the service-interworking framework addresses the need for reliable integration of telecommunications network elements and enables the graceful introduction of these new services. Nortel Networks also says it will tap partners, telecommunications providers and others to define, create and integrate new multimedia end-to-end services. Succession Network will help Nortel Networks grab its own share of success, says David Yedwab, an analyst at Eastern Management Group, a technology consulting firm located in Bedminster, N.J. "With more than 1,000 telecommunications providers as customers, they are a logical leader for this next generation of converged telephony and data network solutions." Succession Network is scheduled to ship in the fourth quarter. ____________________ By John Edwards. Mr. Edwards is a freelance technology writer based in Mount Laurel, N.J.