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Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP

Posted by timothy on from the all-the-rage dept.

Ryan Barrett writes "Sprint announced that it has 'begun transforming its telephone network so voice calls are transmitted in packets.' AP article here. Combined with a recent /. story about Telus doing the same thing, this sets an interesting precedent. Many telcos already use packet-switching to handle a significant chunk of their calls. Is this the beginning of the end for circuit-switched networks?"

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  1. Re:IP?! Or ATM? Or something else? by richard_willey · · Score: 5, Interesting


    I beg to differ.

    Voice over IP is already standard part of corporate IT. It is rapidly leaking into the consumer space.

    Historically, Big Dumb Pipes have continually displaced managed bandwidth type systems. Voice over IP is just the latest example.

    I did a consulting project for Qualcomm as part of my classwork last semester studying whether 802.11b has the potential to disrupt CDMA networks. People might find the paper interesting, since it indirectly addresses many of the same issues.

    http://web.mit.edu/~rwilley/www/Qualcomm.pdf