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Why the 'Net won't cause PSTN meltdown. (public switched telephone network)
Business Communications Review, January, 1997 by Krapf, Eric
LECs must increase capacity to handle Internet traffic. The Web won't bring down the local network, just LEC profits. How do you convince people that a threat is real enough to require immediate action, and at the same time reassure them that this very real threat will never be allowed to materialize? That's the conundrum that local exchange carriers (LECs) face when it comes to concerns about Internet traffic overloading the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
The LECs are playing a delicate game. To gain attention for the issue and support for what they consider "appropriate" remedies, some LECs have used fairly alarming rhetoric. For example, Bell Atlantic warns, "Given the rapid, and almost volatile, growth of traffic related to serving...
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