STILL THINK A SOFTSWITCH IS THE ANSWER?
How much would you pay for an e-mail account? Yeah, right! e-Mail services are everywhere. The technology is too cheap to bill.
And the same technology can take your voice around the world.
So how can Local Exchange Carriers protect their all-important voice revenue?
Sure, LECs are protected by fees to connect VoIP calls to the PSTN. Fees which VoIP providers must pass along to their customers.
But in the long run, all bets are off. Because pure Internet calling will gain critical mass. VoIP will become like eMail – a freebie you get with an Internet account.
Internet callers will resist paying to talk to the PSTN. More people will disconnect their landlines. Even so-called “soft-switches” will be obsolete – there’s nothing for a soft-switch to do in a world of all-IP calling!
When will it happen? We don’t know for sure. But the economic forces are clear right now. More and more communications takes place outside the phone network. Businesses are using VoIP to cut costs. Even Skype is mainstream.
So if you’re thinking “soft-switch”, think again. Because the Class-5 you operate today can take your network into the next generation of IP services.
You see, we make simple, logical “technology hooks”.
Like IP-Bridge™: Any Class-5 switch can speak IP.
Like the DLS–1080™: The Siemens DCO can speak GR303.
Like CAP5™: A simple way to reuse existing line frames and DLCs in an all-IP network.
We know the PSTN’s days are numbered. The future is IP.
And we have the Bridge to the Future.
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