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The Coming of True Convergence: Why Service Providers Can Finally Turn Out the Lights on the Old Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

Table of Contents:

Definition and Overview

1. Introduction

2. True Convergence

3. What It Takes to Be Carrier-Grade

4. The Protocol War

5. Converged Tools and Service Creation

Self-Test

1. Running voice on data networks was first done in the mid-1980s.

a. true

b. false

2. The real key to this new paradigm of convergence is ____________.

a. compromise

b. standards

c. softswitch

d. H.323

3. One of the challenges of true convergence is the high voice quality in our phone conversations provided by the PSTN.

a. true

b. false

4. ___________ is the device that provides voice signaling and control using open, standards-based protocols.

a. softswitch

b. ISDN

c. MGCP

d. interface

5. Which of the following is not one of the components involved in achieving carrier-grade status?

a. reliability

b. history

c. scalability

d. primary-line capability

6. Because of the advances in convergence technology, it is not necessary for the next-generation platform to interwork all of the next-generation protocols.

a. true

b. false

7. Because vendors will make their products talk to SIP, the two vendors� products can automatically communicate with each other.

a. true

b. false

8. True convergence is more than the mere ability to transport voice and data on the same physical wire. True convergence entails the convergence of tools as well.

a. true

b. false

9. One of the brightest hopes of the next-generation network is the ability to unlock the power of _______________ and place it in the hands of service providers and ultimately their customers.

a. transportation

b. strategy

c. troubleshooting

d. service creation

10. Ultimately, true convergence will come when next-generation vendors solve the problems of meeting or exceeding PSTN reliability and scalability, any-to-any protocol and end point interoperability, and open, standards-based service creation.

a. true

b. false

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