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Move Towards All IP Architectures

I read an article from Darla Mack’s blog about the US Army contracting Nokia to build a WCDMA/HSDPA 3G system for them. This definitely is a big win for Nokia as a manufacturer for 3G equipment which already has over sixty-six (66) operator customers worldwide. However, another interesting point picked my interest. It was mention of the Nokia MSC Server System.

The Nokia MSC Server System is a core network that enables OPEX savings of 30 to 70 percent compared to legacy switching due to its high platform capacity and simple and efficient network architecture.

I become curious about this and decided to check out Nokia’s Website for more information about the product. My suspicions where correct. In order to get a magnitude savings potential of 30 to 70 percent, I figured that this system must be a IP-based (with SIP), packet-switched and modular one. And it definitely is! It is a soft switch with multiple multimedia gateways at the edges and it is used in over fifty (50) live networks.

This shows that more and more telecommunications equipment manufacturers are definitely going the IP-way and are marketing their new soft solutions big time. In the past, I have been able to work with Avaya and Nortel IP-based PBX solutions and they worked as advertised. In those cases, they used where using Ethernet as the communications backplane between cabinets and the PBX server. For these large operator solutions, they have a choice of MetroE or SDH/SONET. However, it is implemented one fact is certain: VoIP is the future and there is no turning back.

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One Response to “Move Towards All IP Architectures”

  1. wyuwp Says:
    January 24th, 2007 at 12:03 am

    And here is another scoop from GigaOM about the importance of VoIP to Avaya’s bottomline.

    Avaya’s bid to acquire SIP application vendor Ubiquity was a tip-off that Voice over IP is becoming the center of importance at the enterprise telephony provider. Tuesday during Avaya’s earnings call the company confirmed that focus, announcing that it had sold more than 1 million IP phone lines for the third straight fiscal quarter, showing that corporate adoption of VoIP shows no signs of slowing.

    While Avaya’s overall results seemed in line with analyst expectations, the IP numbers are increasing lines in the sand pointing toward an overall move from TDM to IP in the corporate communications arena. Avaya also said that investments like the Ubiquity buy will help it increase the integration of communications and business applications, a direction Avaya said it will look to for growth beyond its traditional telecom-supply businesses.

    Traditional circuit switch is definitely on its way out.

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