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ALSO CALLED: Public Switched Telephone Network and PSTN Services
DEFINITION: PSTN (public switched telephone network) is the world's collection of interconnected voice-oriented public telephone networks, both commercial and government-owned. It's also referred to as the Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS). It's the aggregation of circuit-switching telephone networks
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Solving the E911 Enterprise Location Challenge
| sponsored by Avaya Inc.
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Advances in technology are undermining the ability to identify the location of a caller dialing 911. This whitepaper looks at the technical issues, the regulatory environment, and the steps that Avaya is taking to address the E911 challenge.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Next-Generation OSS/BSS Challenges
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
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This Expert Lesson will look at service providers' next-generation OSS/BSS challenges and opportunities, whether that means having a third-party assessment or outsourcing OSS/BSS network management.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 07 Jun 2008
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Episode 2: Steps for Effective Operations Transformation
| sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
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Deepak reviews the critical steps operators need to make to cut operating costs, which fuel over 50% of service provider budgets, he looks at transformation opportunities from a financial point of view reviewing industry benchmarks.
Posted: 05 Jun 2008 | Premiered: 05 Jun 2008
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Harnessing the Voice Revolution
| sponsored by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
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The managed services model may enable enterprises to reduce the risks involved in VoIP deployment while tapping into the service provider's expertise to address quality of service and network management issues.
Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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Remote Office Survivability
| sponsored by Quintum Voice Over IP Technologies
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This white paper outlines the remote office challenges that are coming to light as more and more companies implement VoIP across the enterprise.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 07 Mar 2008
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Capitalizing on Unified Communications: A Business and Technical Strategy Overview
| sponsored by Wipro Technologies
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This paper presents Wipro's point of view on the benefits of UC, and describes our unique ability to combine telephony planning and industry-specific expertise with comprehensive UC solutions.
Posted: 26 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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PSTN DEFINITION (continued): … that has evolved from the days of Alexander Graham Bell ("Doctor Watson, come here!"). Today, it is almost entirely digital in technology except for the final link from the central (local) telephone office to the user. In relation to the Internet, the PSTN actually furnishes much of the Internet's long-distance infrastructure. Because Internet service providers ISPs pay the long-distance providers for access to their infrastructure and share the circuits among many …
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