Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

Carriers offering VOIP
“Equant, a network services provider, will announce tomorrow that it is introducing
voice-over-frame relay service in 40 countries, ...
The company says customers can save 20% to 40% or more by sending voice traffic over
its frame relay network. "This is the nearest you’re going to get to free voice," says Laurence
Huntley, executive VP of marketing for Equant Network Service.
The Equant service uses the Cisco Systems 3810 router, which takes the customer’s voice
and data traffic and integrates them before putting the traffic on the Equant network. Equant
is also working with Cisco to introduce a voice-over-IP service. …
Equant isn’t alone in its pursuit to send voice traffic over data networks. Most of the major
carriers are testing services that would send voice over data networks. ... .” 1
AT&T VoIP phone: http://www.telephones.att.com/new_prod.html
Deutsche Telekom running a pilot Internet telephony service using networking products from
Ascend Communications and VocalTec.
1. Mary E. Thyfault, Equant To Roll Out Voice-Over-Frame Relay Service, InformationWeek Daily, 10/21/98.
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