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Whitepapers
 | Advanced MDU/MTU PON Systems with Protection Switching Published April 2006 Passive Optical Networks (PON) are an emerging last mile technology that affordably addresses the high-bandwidth demands of today’s end-users. Carriers are increasingly turning their attention to PON technology, primarily to support the delivery of “triple play” voice/VoIP, Internet and television/video services over FTTX (fiber-to-the-home, curb, premise, building, node). This whitepaper focuses on the advantages of Ethernet technology in PON deployments.  |
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 | The Important Role of Ethernet Switches in Media Gateways Published March 2006 During the transition period to IP networks, telephony softswitch solutions are being deployed to support today’s legacy circuit-oriented traffic over an IP-based infrastructure. This whitepaper looks at the evolution of softswitches and media gateways to provide VoIP capabilities as part of the transition from circuit-switched to packet-based networks and the efforts of semiconductor suppliers to develop new, highly integrated Fast Ethernet. |
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 | Introduction to Quality of Service in the Network Access
Environment With a burgeoning online universe comes the responsibility of making it work. A VoIP call must have audio quality required for an important business conversation. A streaming movie must have sufficient picture quality to make it a viable alternative to a DVD rental. As presented at the Communications Design Conference, this paper introduces the requirements for ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) in the network access environment. |
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