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Cover Story for the 20th anniversary
Cost reduction with IP-enablement, revenue increase with FMC, and
new infrastructure construction with NGN
World megacarriers talk about
what will come next after the traditional telephony network is gone
At last, the age of switching equipment is coming to an end. After BT’s
announcement in June 2004 that it would make the transition to IP-based networks,
carriers in Japan such as KDDI and NTT followed suit. In 2005, the trend
has been spreading all over the world. How do the world’s megacarriers
think what will become of the telephony network?
This is how carriers will react
Vigorous push toward IP-enablement and FMC to fight for survival
Round 1: Changing telephony networks to IP-based ones
IP-enablement is intended for reducing costs and offering
new services
BT, NTT, FT, and SBC talk about how traditional telephony
networks are to be discarded
- KT Korea will complete its IP-based
network in 2010
Three barriers
that block the transition of telephony networks to IP-based ones
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Can problems of interconnectivity, security, and voice quality
be resolved?
Situations in US make a clear departure from those in
Europe and Asia: Countermeasures against CATV come first, and telephony
networks must be used up
Round 2: Blending of the fixed and the cellular
In a few years, FMC
services will become a main business
KT and BT that lead the world
speak the downright truth
Problems facing FMC providers - An array
of attractive terminals is a must
Situations in Japan: KDDI goes ahead
of others while the NTT group fails to reach an agreement
Interview
with four family companies that had taken off from the former Nippon
Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation
What will become of the
switching equipment business after it comes to an end?
Round 3: Telephony network standards in the IP age
NGN (Next Generation Network) standardization is steadily progressing,
and the first specification will be prepared around the end of 2005
Interview
with Alcatel and Siemens: European vendors are making an active investment
without waiting for the standard to be completed
Interview with NTT:
The company will propose specifications required for FTTH to ITU
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