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"PurePacket TLS-Anywhere"

Metro Ethernet solutions are positioned as a “wide area LAN” connection, providing simplicity, and cost effective multi-site interconnection. Current solutions only provide services to ‘on-net’ buildings and service providers are seeking a solution that can extend to off-net customer locations. Integral Access’ PurePacket TLS-Anywhere solves the reach problem by delivering Metro Ethernet services anywhere!

PurePacket is a multi-service access platform capable of delivering data and voice services suited to off-net branch office locations, which are ideal candidates for TLS services. PurePacket’s bandwidth scales from fractional DS1 through DS3 [and above], combined with simple integration to existing Metro Ethernet infrastructure to empower carriers with the ultimate range of bandwidth and geographic choices. TLS-Anywhere unlocks a huge revenue opportunity by extending the reach of Metro Ethernet and providing a scalable alternative to Frame Relay. PurePacket is a modular platform allowing small, cost effective initial deployments to be scaled as customer demands increase. This provides short timeframes to break even and high ROI.

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"Transition for a CLEC to a Facility-based Network: A Case for UNE-P to UNE-L Migration"

The recent events in the regulatory environment have invalidated some aspects of the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier’s (CLECs) business model. The FCC action of December, 2004 has virtually eliminated the UNE-P as a viable vehicle for building a CLEC’s market base. First, the substantial price increases will affect margins on existing customers and, secondly, without the ability to add customers; the churn will eventually lead to a severe attrition of their customer base. There are a number of options available to UNE-P providers and rest assured that most of them will approach the market from a multi-dimensional approach. The various market areas may require different approaches to the problem and demand a tailored market development strategy for success. This paper covers three options that a CLEC can offer. The concept of reselling was not addressed in this paper because of its weak business case and inability to offer a robust feature set. Here are the potential strategies that a CLEC can pursue:

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"Circuit to Packet Migration Application"

A few years ago, most Service Providers were determined to severely limit or com-pletely stop investing in Class 5 circuit switched infrastructure. However, as we look back on the telecommunications industry these past several years, we see that the need for both traditional and enhanced voice services continues to grow, but deployment of the next-generation vision is slower than anticipated. Still, the industry continues to move towards a next generation Softswitch architecture for delivery of voice services while looking for ways to address deploy-ment issues such as inter-operability, reliability and scalability.

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"MGCP Implementation in the Access Gateway"

Is it better to implement MGCP in a line access gateway at the customer premise (e.g. in an Integrated Access Device) or in a line access gateway at an Access Aggregation point (e.g. an edge router)? While there are claims of advantages and disadvantages for each alternative, invariably, a combination of technical and economic factors associated with each alternative will prove the final market positioning.

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"MGCP: Media Gateway Control Protocol - Providing Structure in Today's IP-Based Telephone System"

The Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) provides the call control necessary to allow wide scale IP telephony over the Internet with interoperability between legacy telephone networks. Efficient and suited for growth and interoperability with legacy voice connections, MGCP is the number one option for providing signaling over IP networks today. This 22-page technical white paper is a great resource for learning about MGCP.

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"Considerations for Creating and Delivering Next Generation Services for the New Public Network"

In today’s hyper-competitive public network marketplace service providers must find new ways to distinguish their service offerings from those of their competitors. This need drives service providers to employ creative and innovative solutions to deliver new value to their customers. The emerging Internet Protocol (IP), packet-based public network provides an ideal environment for such creativity and innovation-enabling service providers to offer richly differentiated portfolios of converged voice and data services.This white paper provides a technical overview of service management problems, demonstrating how Next Generation Service Management Systems enable advanced service creation and management.

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