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VOIP Services Emerging.(Williams Communications and Level 3 Communications plan voice-over-IP services)(Company Business and Marketing)
Business Communications Review, January, 2000 by Krapf, Eric
Two of the major service providers in the packet voice market closed out 1999 with significant announcements on service rollouts and vendor selection. The details say a lot about the state of the art in voice over IP (VOIP)--both hype and reality--as well as about the real promise of the new softswitch concept to revolutionize public voice networks.
The pair of carriers--Williams Communications (www.level3.com) are often seen as representing the extremes in the IP-vs.-ATM battle, with Level 3 swearing allegiance to IP while Williams touts the quality of service (QOS) merits of ATM. Indeed, Williams' announcement was liberally salted with ATM promotion, while this particular acronym was nowhere to be found in the Level 3 release. Yet the approach...
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