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PSTN

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.
WHITE PAPER: 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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Harnessing the Voice Revolution
sponsored by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how the managed services model may help reduce the risks involved in VoIP deployment while tapping into your 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
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the remote office challenges that are surfacing as more companies implement VoIP. It also explains how corporate IT departments and service providers can avoid the pitfalls experienced during the initial adjustment
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
WHITE PAPER: 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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TOPICS:  Collaboration | PSTN

Solving the NGN Data Migration Challenge
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER: The costs associated with data inaccuracy have emerged as a fundamental issue. This white paper outlines a new approach to help operators optimize the total costs for subscriber data validation during IP Transformation.
Posted: 31 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Emerging Best Practices for Carrier IP Transformation
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
WHITE PAPER: This vendor white paper - prepared by Alcatel-Lucent - identifies emerging best practices for planning, implementation, migration, and operations based on hands-on experience with IP Transformation initiatives across the globe.
Posted: 31 Jan 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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