Sprint Takes ATM Approach To Voice Services.

Multichannel News, July, 1999 by DAWSON, FRED

A new approach to delivering packetized voice services is rapidly growing within the DSL community, adding new momentum to the development of network components that are tightly integrated into the ATM framework. Several competitive local-exchange carriers that specialize in digital-subscriber-line transport systems are working with suppliers of in-terface systems that will support multiple-line voice services and high-speed data using asynchronous transfer mode at the operations layer 3 normally occupied by IP (Internet protocol) in packet-voice communications.

Meanwhile, Sprint Corp. has opted to use the ATM format rather than IP in the voice component of its ION (Integrated On-Demand Network) service when the carrier moves to mass rollouts...

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