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Internet Model for Control of Converged Networks

Table of Contents:
Definition and Overview
1. Introduction
2. Navigating Roadblocks to Convergence
3. The Migration Path to a Converged Network
4. Binding Converged Networks
5. New Model Architecture
6. Conclusion
Self-Test
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1. The need for converged network solutions is predicated on the rapidly growing demand for data transmission.
a. true
b. false
2. One of the primary limitations of today’s PSTN is that _______________.
a. it is a vast, established infrastructure
b. it cannot carry data
c. it does not support IP–based products, multimedia, content delivery, or emerging technologies
d. it is not reliable
3. An Internet model for converged networks provides all but which of the following benefits?
a. transactional and on-line billing as well as flat-rate billing
b. increasing demand for voice traffic
c. Web-based network management and system configuration
d. real-time customer service
4. IP will likely be replaced by light or sound wave protocols.
a. true
b. false
5. What makes a converged network work is the ability to control two networks from multiple platforms simultaneously.
a. true
b. false
6. The numerous SS7 networks established throughout the world are interchangeable with each other without any need to translate between them.
a. true
b. false
7. What is a more economical means of getting SS7–based telephone calls to any one of several telephone switches?
a. Establish an SS7 link from the SS7 network to each of the telephone switches involved.
b. Put one SS7 device in on the SS7 network, and let it carry call-control messaging between the SS7 network and the telephone switches.
8. What benefits can the right SS7 platform provide a converged network in the telecommunications environment?
a. the ability to relay call signaling from the SS7 network to multiple switches
b. the ability to communicate call signaling to TDM switches from different manufacturers
c. the ability to enable voice over IP (VoIP) by enabling the routing into media gateways that will change those calls into packet-based ones
d. all of the above
9. SS7 enables routing and control of voice but not data traffic across converged networks.
a. true
b. false
10. For a next-generation system to be viable, the browser can be the only interface.
a. true
b. false
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