NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: STEVE TAYLOR AND LARRY HETTICK ON CONVERGENCE 11/08/04 Today's focus: Sprint offers wireline replacement
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * Sprint's market trial of technology that brings wireless to ��wireline * Links related to Convergence * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Texas Instruments Learn how to offer better than toll-quality performance in your next-generation network Download our latest white paper on Wideband Voice Coding T E X A S I N S T R U M E N T S http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=88048 _______________________________________________________________ SECURTIY SUMMIT: CAN SECURITY BE A COMPETITIVE EDGE? Recently 23 prominent IT executives and academics gathered at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for a daylong roundtable to address such questions. CIOs and VPs from some of the largest and most well-known companies in the US shared with peers their security fears, goals, frustrations and challenges. Find out more: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=87858 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Sprint offers wireline replacement By Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick This week, we'll take a look at two technology trials that bring the worlds of wireline and wireless together. Today, we'll focus on a five-city market trial conducted by Sprint that offers a wireline replacement using Sprint's wireless network. Sprint's offering uses a custom version of Telular's Phonecell Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) fixed wireless terminal. The CDMA terminal connects wireline telephones, fax machines and analog modems to the Sprint cellular network, and features high voice quality and E-911 compliance. To use the cellular network to replace wireline services, a consumer simply plugs the wireless terminal into an ordinary home phone jack, enabling devices connected to the same phone line to work through the wireless network. The terminal has an RJ-11 interface and emulates the local phone company dial tone. The terminal offers services such as Caller ID, Call Waiting and Call Hold. It includes GPS positioning technology for E-911 Phase 2 compliance as well as TDD/TTY for the hearing and speech impaired. The terminal will be available during the market trial through Sprint wireless retail stores in selected markets, including Charlotte, N.C.; Indianapolis; Minneapolis; Richmond, Va.; and San Antonio, Texas. Next time, we'll look across the Atlantic to see what British Telecom is doing about wireless-wireline convergence. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Sprint news http://www.nwfusion.com/news/financial/sprint.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Steve Taylor and Larry Hettick Steve Taylor is President of Distributed Networking Associates and Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Webtorials.Com. For more detailed information on most of the topics discussed in this newsletter, connect to Webtorials.Com <http://www.webtorials.com/>, the first Web site dedicated exclusively to market studies and technology tutorials in the Broadband Packet areas of Frame Relay, ATM, and IP. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Larry Hettick an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in voice and data. He is currently Vice President for Wireline Solutions at Current Analysis, the leading competitive response solutions company. He can be reached at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Lucent Align Your IT Resources and Deliver Results Fast IDC reports that Lucent VitalSuite(r) Performance Management Software helps many businesses centrally monitor, manage and deliver advanced services rapidly while generating outstanding financial benefits-an average ROI as high as 719% and 133 day payback. 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