L’accès ubiquitaire au large bande, devenant la norme, l’UIT exhorte les pouvoirs publics à faire des choix éclairés qui favorisent le déploiement, l’innovation et des prix abordables

Beyrouth, le 12 novembre 2009 — Les délégués au 9ème Colloque mondial des régulateurs de l’UIT (tenu du 10 au 12 novembre) ont souligné la nécessité urgente, pour les pouvoirs publics, d’ouvrir les marchés à une plus grande concurrence et d’avoir recours à des mesures d’incitation, afin d’encourager les investissements dans les réseaux large bande, qui sont en passe de devenir l’élément vital de l’économie du savoir.

Le Colloque, qui s’est tenu en présence de 648 participants de 89 pays, s’est efforcé de dégager une vision et une compréhension communes des nombreux problèmes auxquels sont confrontés aujourd’hui les régulateurs des TIC, sur des marchés issus de la convergence de plus en plus complexes.

“Les résultats de cette édition du GSR sont les meilleurs que nous ayons jamais obtenus, qu’il s’agisse du nombre de participants ou de la qualité et de l’intérêt des débats auxquels nous avons assisté au cours des trois derniers jours. Cela atteste du rôle déterminant que jouent aujourd’hui les régulateurs pour définir l’orientation future des marchés qui se caractérisent par des progrès technologiques rapides et par une concurrence toujours plus complexe et en mutation constante” a déclaré le

Secrétaire général, Dr Hamadoun Touré.

la suite du sujet ici …

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Over at FD Wholesale, we’ve been doing some trials in our R&D department bonding Annex M tails together and we’ve been able to get throughput normally associated with leased lines. We’re roughly 1.5Km from our local exchange, and when bonding 2 lines, the total sync rate was 26.7Mbps down and 4Mbps up. When we bonded 4 lines, we obtained 56Mbps down and 8Mbps up.

The applications for this are wide ranging. Consider having a client who lives 5Km+ from their local exchange. 1 DSL would offer them little throughput to sustain a number of users. Aggregate 2 or 3 together and suddenly they can start to look at IP applications that may improve business processes such as SIP or Video conferencing. Another example may be where a client can’t gain wayleave agreement to obtain a fibre run. In this instance, they can have a bonded Annex M service offeirng up to 80Mbps down and 10Mbps up. Obviously these are headline speeds and are dependant on quality of copper and line length, but in all but the worst circumstances, a bonded Annex M service can start to become a compelling alternative to EFM or FTTC. Using the BE network, this is also available immediately, nationwide. No waiting for 2012 to have a coverage of c.300 exchanges.

Currently this is something that all our channel partners are utilising, as it gives them a cost effective alternative to a leased line. Based on the Cisco proprietory protocol, traditionally the stumbling point has been the high initial price point associated with the routers. However, we’ve been conducting some trials with a manufacturer called Virtual Access using their GW7000 boxes, and they’ve been very successful in terms of throughput and stability. However, even more compelling is the fact that they lower the initial price point of the solution to sub £500.

Personally I feel that bonding Annex M tails, at the core is a lot more resilinet solution than trying to aggregate them at the client end, using an external aggregator, as it means that there is little overhead, lower packet loss and less latency. In my opinion, the main thing to take away from this is that even though fibre will still have it’s uses, the applications for DSL are ever increasing. Whereby traditionally a leased line was the only method available to provide large amounts of throughput, the landscape is ever changing to incorporate DSL.

Chyba powoli już czas abyście sobie Panowie zdefiniowali co rozumiecie przez “kreowanie zapotrzebowania”. Czy to będzie jakaś “killer applications” czy działalność dr Judyma, a może kino objazdowe (był taki pomysł “internetowego autobusu” . A może lepiej zrobić kampanie medialną? Zachęcam do przeprowadzenia systematycznej analizy jak mozna by osiągnąć teki cel i co w danych obszarach faktycznie się dzieje (to pierwszy etap – rozpoznanie…).

It’s useful to understand how over the recent years, big businesses have reinvented themselves. I was reading an article recently on the departing Ericsson CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg, which gave an insightful account of the issues facing Ericsson after the dot-com bubble had burst. His model solely focused around consolidation, whilst others in their market either spread themselves extremely thin in looking for new markets to expand into (see Marconi) or acquired rivals to try and quickly expand (see Alcatel-Lucent). What Carl-Henric Svanberg did with Ericsson was to really consolidate, concentrate on their core business of building networks and inevitably cut costs. This worked, and he now leaves Ericsson today in the healthy position of having 40% of all mobile calls made on their network. I think a lot of companies get excited by the profits and market share available to them when they look outside of their domain. 2 large enterprises who are having mixed results are Google and Cisco. Although Google is still king of search, it’s increasingly more lucrative and more prestigious projects such as Google Books are starting to sap resources from it’s search empire. This has had the effect on competitors like Bing taking more market share.

It was also interesting to see how emerging technologies helped to spur growth in the ailing company. Although a large proportion of their spending is still attributed to legacy networks, opportunities increasingly present themselves to expand into so-called next generation networks. 3G networks are fast becoming their bread and butter, with customers such as Three (3) and T-Mobile in the UK having Ericsson infrastructure to power their data networks. Moving forward, with the advance of M2M, Carl-Henric Svanberg thinks that there is the potential for roughly   sim cards to be embedded into devices as seemingly mundane as fridges, microwaves and washing machines. This is where he envisages Ericsson’s next market shift. There’s no doubting the strength of the mobile data market. Whether it hits a natural saturation period or whether advance such as LTE will help it break through it’s glass ceiling are anyone’s guess. However one thing is certain. Due to the requirement for people to be connected on the move, this is definitely a market that will be key for a long time.

Nov.7 – The company announced to deliver 1G bps optical network services on 2010.  It can be used by customers who are stayed in Next Generation Network (NGN) areas. It’s a kind of answer to businesses and associations who want cloud computing.

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It seems like we have entered the grubby season of the exhibition. I say grubby as some of the exhibitions I’ve been to previously have consisted of nothing more than a myriad of stands of vendors who don’t understand what you do, trying to sell you something that you inevitably don’t really need.

With the recent ‘Margin in Voice and Data expo’, there seemed to be a distinct change in direction towards a more focused show. I personally saw it as a good time for event organisers to re-evaluate their expos. However with the economy showing signs of picking up, there has been a return to the scene of the big all encompassing show stopping exhibition. Last week I went to the IP expo. Usually filled with big stands with big companies with even bigger egos. However this year was different. I only went for a morning on the first day, but what I found was an exhibition with a clear theme; Virtualisation. Previously where there were 4 expos centered around different aspects of cloud computing. This had now been amalgamated into one big show. Personally it was interesting to have a chat with different network operators, followed by walking across the room to discuss compatibility issues with specific vendors and system application developers. I found this a lot more worthwhile and was able to get a good level of understanding as to how different vendors/suppliers plan to incorporate a cloud based service into their product portfolios.

I then recently went to the ‘Convergence Summit South‘ run by Miles Publishing. This is specific to the channel within the telecomms industry and by their own admission has been their most successful summit for a while. As exhibitions go, it was exactly as expected. However the shining light of the expo was the seminars. Personally there was a great debate early on between Tim Hubbard of BT Wholesale, Neil McArthur of Talk Talk and Steve Gallagher of Cable and Wireless about what constitutes a ‘Next Generation Network’, and how their respective organisations are striving to compete. In my view, the term NGN is extremely mis-leading and one used purely for marketing spin. To see these industry heavyweights vying with each other about their own USP’s, whilst surveying the potential future landscape of the telecomms market was exciting, as little more than 5 years ago, BT would not have had to defend against such strong competition. The expo also saw an interesting feature, whereby hosted VOIP providers were given 20 minutes to setup from scratch their hosted platform in front of a packed audience. The one that I saw was successful and proved the ease of use and speed of the platform.

In all, expo’s can provide a valuable insight into your chosen market. Going back to the convergence summit, it was interesting to see how many big mobile carriers were present, as they tried to embrace the shift to FMC by traditional voice and data integrators. It’s a shame that the example set by the ‘Margin in Voice and Data’ expo earlier in the year was not followed, and I’m sure that as we emerge from the recession, various exhibitions will only continue to get bigger and probably more brash.

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Bezeq, the largest Israeli telco has launched a new fiber optic network – the NGN. Though the event  is not exactly belongs to the mobile world,  I think it may have significant and long lasting effects on the whole Israeli communication market, so it worth to say a few words about it (especially due to the fact I had a chance to visit the public launch event and even shot a a few pics there).

NGN event stage

During the last year Bezeq has started to deploy its upgraded fiber optic infrastructure branded as NGN (Next Generation Network). The new network enabled the company to start offering new high speed internet connections packages: At first 10 and 15 Mbps, then 30 Mbps and in the near future (according to Bezeq) 50 Mbps. The pricing though still remains a weak point (in my view). One who would like to order a 10 Mbps package will have to pay an average monthly fee of almost ILS 90 (~$25) while a 30 Mbps will cost ILS 400 (~$108). This is still very pricey and the question is dual: first, will  the faster packages press down the price of the lighter packages and secondly, will the price of the fast packages be reduced

Demonstration netbooks

over the time. The first question has got a partially positive answer by now – for example 2.5 Mbps package price has been reduced; yet it still has a long way down IMHO. The more complete answers to these questions will be seen later when the NGN infrastructure will reach the majority of population (by 2010).

Now to the launching event. It was widely promoted on the national TV and was present on outdoor billboards. The promos promised some kind of ‘happening’ and a demonstration pavilion in the old Tel-Aviv harbor compound. The open-air ‘happening’ featured a stage with various activities for families and performance of local artists. It has clearly demonstrated that Bezeq is interested to penetrate with the service directly to the mass market skipping the stage of tech fans and early adopters.

The demonstration pavilion was a bit disappointing. It featured a few areas. Close to the entrance were placed netbooks which allegedly had to show the superior speed of NGN. In practice there were no installed application which were able to demonstrate it and the netbooks were conquered by children surfing the Facebook.  Another area demonstrated ‘the living room of the future’ showcasing a streaming HD picture of a soccer game. Bezeq staff was absolutely proud of the streamer box and willingly explained how the streamer is connecting wirelessly to the router and transmitting the picture to the TV without any PC.

HD streaming (The living room of the future)

Additional compound showed the new services launched by Bezeq which not exactly depend on NGN. Among the services are IP-telephony (which is already operational but can only be connected to a PC but not to IP-phone). The pricing of the service is similar to a regular phone line. Another service is file storage. It’s unclear to me which target is pursued by Bezeq in launching this service. It is similar to many free web storage service but unlike them it costs money. In addition, the file size is limited to 50 MB only. On my question what makes the service unique, Bezeq staff answered that it has a Hebrew user interface and that it is more reliable that regular web freebies.

IP-telephony & storage service demo

The last mention worth item was a model of the NGN gateway box. It was explained that one such box can serve up to 500 households and this is the final point of the fiber optic. The box connects to the old copper wires which can’t be longer than 70 meters.

I’ve also asked whether Bezeq is planning to provide content for high connection speeds. They said that in the short run they are only going to offer ‘light’ content such as ringtones and there is no intention to become a content provider. In my view though, the key question is will Bezeq receive regulator’s permission to provide IPTV services and what will happen in this case with Bezeq affiliated YES satellite TV company. If IPTV platform will be launched satellite broadcasting will become unnecessary and is likey to be shut down. However this is a matter of too distant feature.

Now, discussing the consequences of this launch and taking into consideration that HOT cable company is about to start similar service in a short time, it’s obvious that mobile carriers will have to upgrade their speed too if they want to continue the trend of the recent years of positioning themselves as leaders of the communication market. This raises the question whether the carriers are ready to invest in LTE and acquire additional frequencies for it.

NGN gateway

There is no doubt though that the launch of NGN network was critical for Israel as after being a leader in communication field,  in the last few years it has been left behind not only by the futuristic countries such as Japan and S. Korea but also by many European countries.

Gestern kam meine neue Fritz!box 7270 – diese sollte zukünftig meine ARCOR EasyBox A800 ablösen.

So einfach ist das aber im ersten Moment gar nicht. Wenn man sich mit der DSL, Internet und Telefoniegeschichte nicht näher beschäftig (so als ganz normaler User), dann weiß man mit dem Begriff NGN wohl nicht soooo viel an zu fangen.

Gewundert hatte mich immer nur, warum diese EasyBox keinen Splitter vorgeschalten hatte.

Also befragte ich zunächst einmal Google zu diesem Thema. Hier wird man auch recht schnell in diversen Foren fündig – meist steht dort aber: “ich betreibe meine Fritzbox an meinem NGN Anschluss und es funktioniert” – wie es aber im Detail funktioniert erzählt keiner….

Nun, ich betreibe nun auch meine neue Fritz!Box an diesem Anschluss – und so funktioniert das Ganze:

1. Zunächst sollte man sich folgende Dinge von Arcor besorgen:

• Internet Zugangsdaten
• Sprachpasswort (für die Internettelefonie)

Dies funktioniert über die Hotline recht gut (auch wenn in diversen Foren immer wieder zu lesen ist, dass es an einem NGN-Anschluss mit einer Rufnummer nicht rausgerückt wird)

2. Fritzbox auspacken und anschließen – Für alle diejenigen welche nun dieses Y-Kabel im Karton vorfinden keine Panik – das graue Kabel (TAE->RJ45) von der EasyBox passt wunderbar in den Anschluss der Fritz!Box mit der Aufschrift “DSL”. Die Fritz!Box synchronisiert auch sofort.

(Ich denke hier kann auch ein TAE->Rj11 Kabel verwendet werden, oder man setzt den gewöhnlichen DSL-Splitter dazwischen – getestet habe ich diese beiden Varianten allerdings nicht)

3. Fritzbox Konfigurieren

die Internetzugangsdaten können über das Menü – Erweiterte Einstellungen – Internet – Zugangsdaten hinterlegt werden. Hier folgendes auswählen:

• Internetanbieter: “anderer Internetanbieter”
• Benutzername: akxxxxxxx (oder arxxxxxx) OHNE @arcor.de
• Kennwort: das dazugehörige Passwort

weiter brauch hier nichts konfiguriert werden. Somit sollte die Fritz!Box nun ins Internet kommen – der erste Schritt ist geschafft.

4. Internettelefonie

Die Internettelefonie ist eigentlich genauso leicht zu konfigurieren wie der Internetzugang.

Erweiterte Einstellungen – Telefonie – Telefoniegeräte – Festnetz

hier zunächst bitte das Häkchen “Festnetz aktiv” entfernen (dieses ist an einem NGN-Anschluss recht unnötig, bzw. würde nicht funktionieren)

dann in Erweiterte Einstellungen – Telefonie – Internettelefonie kann die “Neue Internetrufnummer” hinzugefügt werden.

Die Einstellungen lauten wie folgt:

• Internettelefonie-Anbieter: “anderer Anbieter”
• Internetrufnummer: VorwahlRufnummer
• Benutzername: VorwahlRufnummer
• Kennwort: Sprachpasswort (von Hotline)
• Registrar: arcor.de
• Proxy-Server: Vorwahl.sip.arcor.de
• Häkchen für “Internetrufnummer für die Anmeldung verwenden” rausnehmen (standard)

Nun sollte im Status auch die Internetrufnummer registriert sein.

This post follows the successful conclusion of our several-day saga sorting out our Internet connectivity issues with Bezeq. I’m providing these survival tips and lessons learned to spare others future pain if and when their time comes to upgrade to Bezeq NGN (Next Generation Network). This blog post is entirely technical, that is, no mystical musings or philosophical speculation.

Problem Solving & Analysis

Here are some lessons learned from our upgrade from “old” Bezeq ADSL (~750 kbps) to the “upgraded” Bezeq ADSL (+2.5 mbps), a.k.a. “Next Generation Network (NGN)”.

Scenario

• We are Bezeq phone and ADSL subscribers.
• Our ISP is Bezeq International.
• We were (and still are) using our Bezeq-provided modem as a modem only, i.e. not as a router.
• Our router was (and still is) a TRENDnet TEW-431BRP (a wireless AP router), which runs a crossover cable from its WAN port to the Bezeq modem, and contains LAN ports in which we insert Ethernet cables for our (home) desktop and (employer’s) laptop PCs.
• Our computers are both running Windows XP.

This setup enables us to connect more than one PC to the Bezeq modem, and gives us the ability to connect the laptop via wireless, when we wish to.

Problem #1

Ever since the upgrade to the line took place a few weeks ago, we were experiencing increasingly frequent service disruptions, indicated by the ADSL stalling and resetting itself. This became intolerable last Thursday evening (1^st October), and into Friday morning.

Action Taken

Contacted Bezeq on Sunday–following a very long wait to get an available service rep–and reported the problem. After explaining the problem, we were told that they synchronized the system via Bezeq’s monitoring & control panel and that service was restored.

Problem #2

Within 2 hours, the problem had returned, i.e. constant disruption to the ADSL Line.

Action Taken

Contacted Bezeq on Monday. This time, managed to get service rep within ~15 minutes (slight improvement). They said that there was either a problem in the modem, or in the line (which would seem to cover all bases); anyway, since no technician would be available until Wednesday, Bezeq would temporarily downgrade our ADSL service from the NGN speed to the pre-upgrade speed.

Result

ADSL service worked well for the next ~48 hours, albeit at the slower speed, which was fine with us since we weren’t benefiting from the NGN upgrade anyway.

Problem #3

Bezeq technician checks line at residence; confirms that signal strength is fine, but that existing modem is too old to support NGN; or possibly, that modem has become damaged.

Technician trades us a new ADSL2 modem (TNN – AZTECH 600E (L2)) for our old one (an ECI B-Focus Router 270PR).

Since this guy is a line technician with no knowledge of software, he leaves our residence at this point, telling us that the computers (desktop & laptop) will connect just fine once we run the Bezeq-provided modem installation CD. This was our first mistake! Installing the Bezeq dialup “חייגן” on our computers made it impossible to establish an Internet connection, even with the LAN and ADSL fully functioning, i.e. all indicator lights green both on the modem and in the PC system tray.

LESSON LEARNED #1: Don’t install the Bezeq-provided dialup software (חייגן). You can connect just fine without it, at least in Windows XP; see Procedure #1 below.

LESSON LEARNED #2: If you did install the Bezeq dialup software on your Windows XP computer, uninstall it via Start > Control Panel > Remove Programs.

Action Taken

Uninstalled the Bezeq dialup software

Result

Still no Internet service (even though, as previously, ADSL signal was working)

Action Taken

Called Bezeq tech support (at this point, having spent no less than 3 hours on time on Wednesday trying to solve the connectivity problem).  This technician, who actually seemed quite knowledgeable and competent, instructed us on the following 3 points (a), (b), and (c):

(a)    The NGN service upgrade, in order to enable you to connect to Internet services via Bezeq ADSL, requires that you create a broadband network connection, and append @014 to your user name in the parameters defining that connection. For instance, if under the old ADSL regime your user name was jsmith, now its jsmith@014. This is critical; it was a mistake that we didn’t include @014 in the first place!

(Note: It has been pointed out to me that the convention username@ISPcode, is not just for ADSL2 and NGN; rather it’s required by Bezeq’s Radius server in order for it to know how to handle your connection.)

(b)    To get the computer to recognize the new modem and establish compatibility with it, use the Procedure #1 below.

(c)    If you’re connecting the modem to a separate router, define the modified username (i.e. append @014) in the router’s firmware; see Procedure #2 below.

Procedure #1: Establish Internet Connectivity via ADSL Modem

1. On your PC desktop, open Network Connections.
2. Run the New Connection Wizard.
3. In the wizard, choose Connect to Internet (first option). Next.
4. Choose Set up manually (2^nd option). Next.
5. Choose Connect via Broadband (1^st option). Next.
6. Type a nickname for your ISP (so your PC will recognize the new ADSL connection method), e.g. BEZEQADSL.
7. Type your user name, provided by Bezeq International, and append @014 to the end of the username, e.g. jsmith@014. Type and confirm the password, and click Next.

At this point, it would be wise to confirm that you can connect via ADSL and that you can access Web services.

Procedure #2: Establish Connectivity between ADSL Modem & Router

Connect one of your computers directly to the router and access the firmware. Do this by opening IE and typing the following URL: http://192.168.0.1 (i.e. the IP address of the TRENDnet router; the address of Bezeq-supplied routers is 10.0.0.138). In the firmware “wizards” and parameter definition pages, make sure of the following:

(a)    Your connection method is defined as PPPoE.

(b)   Your username is defined with @014 appended, as described above.

At this point, you can (re)connect the Bezeq modem to the router via the router’s WAN port, and then hook your computer up to the router via the LAN ports. Confirm that both computers can connect to Bezeq via ADSL and access Web services.

Tip: Getting a Human when Reporting Bezeq Internet Line Problems

When phoning 166, Bezeq’s customer support center, the key sequence for getting a service rep (Hebrew speaking) that handles Internet line problems, is 1-1-3-3. You may have to wait several seconds between key presses, but this sequence ought to work. It’s likely that you’ll have to wait for a service rep to actually respond; during our service disruption saga, waiting times ranged between nothing and 20 minutes.

Special thanks to Dani Deitch for technical review and comments.

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On 14 Septemer 2009 Ofcom published its draft determination to resolve the dispute between Opal Telecom and BT on Opal’s proposed termination rates to be effective from 1 October 2009.  In summary, Ofcom looked at the technology being deployed by Opal Telecom as part of its NGN network in order to determine whether it was appropriate for Opal Telecom to claim that it would be fair and reasonable for it to charge termination rates equivalent to BT’s single tandem termination rate.  The draft answer was, “No”.

Another approach to the dispute would have been to be technologically neutral.  Under the current market review in fixed geographic call termination markets, all operators have SMP in the market for termination on their own networks.  Consequently, all operators are subject to SMP Condition BC1 (or in the case of BT, SMP Condition BA1), which requires them to provide network access on terms, conditions and charges that are fair and reasonable.  BT is subject to further conditions, including SMP Condition BA3, which requires BT to base its charges for fixed geographic call termination on forward looking long run incremental costs (“LRIC”).

In deciding what is fair and reasonable for other operators, Oftel and Ofcom have consistently held that termination rates that are suitably reciprocal with BT’s are de facto fair and reasonable and compliant with SMP Condition BC1.  The “suitable” reciprocity refers to the weighted average of relevant BT termination rates, dependent upon the mix of geographical call termination traffic sent from the other operator to BT on the basis of a sample.  Currently the industry standard reciprocity agreement applies two weighting factors, depending upon whether the other operator is a single or multi-switch operator.  The single switch weighting is based upon a traffic sample in May of each year, to determine the proportion of calls sent to BT which are single tandem or local exchange terminated to be applied to the charges from October for the following year.  The multiple switch weighting uses the single switch weighting factor, together with a second factor to determine the percentage of those calls which are terminated by the operator as multi-switched calls.  This factor is recalculated twice a year, based upon samples of traffic in May and November.

Opal Telecom claimed it was a single switch operator.  This was not a factor in dispute.  Instead, Opal Telecom claimed that terminating traffic on its NGN network was the equivalent of terminating traffic on a single tandem switch.  Ofcom’s draft determination therefore had to analyse and take a view on the technology being deployed by Opal Telecom in its NGN network to come to a view on this claim.

We suggest that instead of considering the technology at issue, an alternative and possibly simpler approach would have been to ignore Opal Telecom’s technology (NGN, traditional TDM switched or otherwise).  An argument can then be made to state that the fair and reasonable termination rate is the higher of:

1. BT’s equivalent termination rate, weighted for the single switch operator rate in accordance with the traffic sent to BT AND weighted for a multi-switch operator rate in accordance with traffic sent by BT to a hypothetical TDM network engineered to carry the same volume of traffic and have the same geographical coverage as the other operator’s actual network; or
2. the other operator’s actual charges for fixed geographic call termination based upon forward looking long run incremental costs.

There is a question as to whether this formula fully complies with all the six principles of pricing and cost recovery used by Ofcom, particularly the principle of reciprocity (where services are provided reciprocally, charges should also be reciprocal), as the other operator’s termination rates under the second limb may be higher than BT’s termination rates.  However, provided the charges are at LRIC, then this may be the price to enable the new market entrant to deploy a new technology fairly (i.e. without an effective susbisdy from all operators sending traffic to be terminated on the new network).  There is also the praticability principle (the mechanism for cost recovery needs to be practicable and relatively easy to implement).  Without speaking to a network engineer, we cannot say whether it would be practical for a hypothetical TDM network to be agreed for the purposes of determining whether a TDM network equivalent to the other operator’s network would be a multi-switch network with any given number of switches.  As for the practicability of the other operator determining its LRIC rates, the burden of proof would be on the other operator to determine its costs to justify the higher termination rate.

We consider you could even propose that such a technology neutral approach could be used no matter what the nature of the other operator (i.e. fixed, mobile, nomadic (WiMAX) etc.), but maybe that it taking matters too far.

SIP is a service offered by VoiceIPComms ; SIP is the abbreviation of “Session Initiation Protocol” and is widely applicable in present scenario. It basically works with Internet Protocol. It initiates the session for multimedia communication among various parties. Multimedia communication includes various online facilities like audio or video recording, conferencing either audible or video, SMS and messaging services, various entertainment options etc. This SIP protocol basically works for making or discarding connection between two parties or multipartite. The protocol is basically Application Layer based protocol i.e. a TCP/IP protocol, it is designed in such a manner that it is not at all based on Transport layer and can run on TCP and UDP.

SIP is a text-based protocol with syntax similar to that of HTTP. There are two different types of SIP messages:

• Requests
• Responses

The first line of a request has a method, defining the nature of the request, and a Request-URI, indicating where the request should be sent. The first line of a response has a response code.For each and every client request SIP offers you at least one response. It is completely a text readable format.

In more clear words we can explain Session Initiation Protocol which makes sessions in Internet protocol environment. SIP provides its services whether it is a two party telephonic calling or very was collaborative multi-media call. Using SIP online innovative services can be possible. It is a purely request and response protocol works with two popular protocols i.e. HTTP and SMTP. SIP works for www and emails thus it feels very luxury to go with online applications. It made telephony another means of application. It can be considered as a kit for voice and media services. It is giving a new shape to present telephony services. It is reusing existing protocols very intelligently and providing much interoperability. Session Initiation Protocol has become very strong and is giving a new shape to present telecommunication enterprises. This is making a valuable place in telecommunication applications. SIP along with other protocol try to done the job completely. This involves finding potential call participants and contacting them as they move from place to place, changing their location and the even equipment they are using. For More Information Please Visit. http://www.voiceipcomms.com/

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Warning: this post contains a large number of acronyms!

Interesting news this morning about how Openreach is reacting to the recent Digital Britian report in providing universal 2Mb broadband services. Using a method called Broadband Enabling Technology, or BET for short (yet another new acronym), Openreach proposes to provide a stable broadband service at distances of up to 12Km from a client’s nearest exchange. For premises situated within a current ‘not spot’ (thank the BBC for that term!) this could prove a viable alternative to using a mobile network or satellite operator, as having a fixed line broadband service would prove a lot more consistent, and also would not be as susceptible to enviromental conditions.

At first glance, it seems that BT have taken the idea of SDH and applied it to longer distances. Looking at the way this is depoyed, it seems that BT Openreach is extending the reach of it’s SHDSL services past the previous 5Km barrier. Currently there is little technical information about how they will do this, bar stating that they have made some “modifications and the use of a repeater unit”. However, it’s interesting that they’re using what was previously thought to be an end of life product, superseeded by both EFM and Annex-M, to provide services to the out of reach.

Since the Digital Britain report, there has been a lot of talk about how to provide a nationwide service capable of providing a universal 2Mb for a number of applications such as BBC’s iPlayer, VOIP and VOD to name but a few. Many different access methods, such as HSPA, WiMax and even satellite links have been considered in rural areas not deemed capable of obtaining a traditional fixed line ADSL service. In their various guises, they have provided a large amount of competition to fixed line operators whose coverage does not extend to ‘not spot’ areas. However these efforts have been largely independant to each other, and despite the advancements in technology within the fixed line communications sector, there hasn’t been a lot of options for people out of reach of their exchange. HSPA has proved not consistent enough, with users depending on mobile network coverage. With recent news of the Orange and T-Mobile merger, this could be something that may improve moving forward. Satellite broadband still does not have a large enough market penetration rate to be considered as a viable nationwide alternative. And WiMax is often used in backhauling bandwidth to out of reach areas, as opposed to a last mile access method.

By BT bringing this product into it’s portfolio it will go someway into giving it’s wholesale partners options to provide their ‘out of reach’ client base with a solid service for extensive use. With speeds of 1Mbps both down and up on a single copper pair, this is a positive step by BT in the right direction.

However, this also raises a lot of questions. All the marketing info we’ve been fed with relating to 21CN has previously made us aware that providing ADSL2+ from all of their exchanges was something BT were looking at having in place by 2012. It will be interesting to find out whether (should initial trials be successful) this may impact the rollout of Bt’s 21CN network. Also it will be interesting to find out the costs to the end user for this, as if it is using SHDSL technology, I couldn’t imagine the price point being markedly different to that previously. BT Openreach have admitted as much by stating “If there is funding to help meet the additional costs involved in deploying the technology, BET could offer a reliable and cost-effective solution to assist the Government’s ambition of delivering a minimum 2Mb/s service to virtually all UK homes”. Also, apart from throwing more copper pairs into the mix, it’s not really a scaleable solution for future bandwidth use.

All in all, it’s nice to see BT finally providing something that seems born out of market pressure. As mentioned, trials are being conducted currently. It will be even more interesting to see whether this proves both a commercial and technically sound option moving forward.

Avaya IP Office delivers full voice functionality with a comprehensive set of features as well as a set of integrated applications that range from the simple to the sophisticated, depending on the needsof the customer.

Avaya IP Office is ideally suited for businesses with between 2 and 100 extensions, but can easily scale up to 360 endpoints and more than 200 analogue and digital trunks (up to 96 trunks; 192 analogue trunks) giving small and medium size businesses room to grow.

The Avaya IP Office system can be configured as a voice-only PBX using traditional circuit-switched lines or as an IP telephony server using high-speed ISDN/PRI dial-up access and/or direct leased line connectivity.

The Avaya IP Office platform comprises 4 models: IP Office-Small Office Edition; IP403; IP406 (v1 and v2); and IP412. Expansion modules can be added to the IP403, IP406 and IP412 platforms to match the requirements of a growing business.

In a single unit, the IP Office Small Office Edition provides a PABX with capabilities to support Auto Attendant, Voicemail, broadband access, a wireless access point, VPN tunnelling, and IP extensions or trunks back to a head office.

The Avaya IP Office Small Office Edition supports a maximum of 28 extensions; the IP403 supports a maximum of 100 extensions; the IP406 v2 supports a maximum of 190 extensions; the IP412 supports a maximum of 360 extensions.

Investment protection is offered through a wide range of handsets supported by several Avaya platforms. IP Office supports IP and digital telephone operation, with large display desktop phones with sophisticated screen-driven feature access. Single button on/off control is available for selected features for ease of use. In addition, IP Office supports analogue and wireless/cordless phones to provide maximum choice and cost consideration for customers.

Multiple Avaya IP Office systems can be linked together using a standard data network, providing a level of feature transparency and advanced applications such as centralised voice mail and call centre. The data networking capabilities of IP Office include Internet or branch-to-branch based routing with firewall-protected Internet access and integral security. The system supports the QSIG protocol for improved networking and interoperability.

The Avaya IP Office supports the following features:

Call Handling Features

IP Office call handling features streamline communications, making it easier for customers and suppliers to reach associates and departments, and improve associate productivity. The advanced call handling features of IP Office automate routine tasks, enable collaboration, and improve customer service. Day-to-day call handling is simplified with a wide range of features, from basic hold, transfer and conference, to advanced capabilities such as Meet-me Conferencing and barge-in.

Messaging Features

IP Office offers several messaging choices to meet the specific needs of small and medium sized businesses. Each can help ensure employees stay connected to the business at all times and from any location. Ensuring that customer calls get through and reach the right person, extension or department every time leads to improved customer service.

IP Office comes standard with VoiceMail Lite, a built-in voice messaging feature. It supports detailed, confidential messaging for individuals and hunt groups, allowing them to quickly and conveniently receive, manage and respond to messages from customers, suppliers or employees. The VoiceMail Pro option provides advanced capabilities such as automated attendant, directory access, and centralised voice messaging, it can also dial subscribers back, internally or externally, as soon as a voicemail message is left so users can respond quickly to high priority messages.

The Unified Messaging option allows users to consolidate all messages into one inbox, and retrieve, respond and manage them from any phone or PC connected to the Internet. Users can hear their e-mail messages via a telephone and hear and/or read their voice messages via their PC.

Conferencing Features

Conferencing enables associates to cost effectively conduct meetings over the phone and collaborate spontaneously for information sharing and decision-making. IP Office offers a wide range of conferencing facilities that cover both ad hoc and scheduled conferences.

The Meet-me Conference Bridge can lower conferencing costs by reducing the need for third-party conferencing service providers.

Customer Management features

The choice of customer management applications allows organisations to manage customer facing departments or contact centre effectively and improve customer service. Avaya IP Office supports a range of call centre operations—from small, informal customer-facing groups (e.g., an accounts receivable department), to formal sales or service operations (e.g., order processing and technical support). For More Information Please Visit. http://www.voiceipcomms.com/

COMPANY INFORMATION OVERVIEW

Through the combination of innovative ideas and network convergence technologies, LG-Nortel provides the connectivity that eliminates barriers in the exchange of information, helping customers realize users’ full potential. By combining LG’s research and development talent with Nortel’s global marketing capability, we’ve given our enterprise, wireless, optical and wireline products a particular pedigree that makes us a strong, unique player in our industry. SMBs and LMBs can rely on LG-Nortel to support their connectivity needs through a comprehensive portfolio of solutions.

These solutions have helped us achieved success at home and abroad by consolidating our competitive position in traditional markets, while identifying high-potential growth opportunities in newer ones. Our end-to end solutions directly help the business and economy nationwide and abroad, spur people to communicate and collaborate more effectively, and streamline processes to help customers bring innovative multimedia services to market

PURE IP SYSTEM

LG-Nortel iPECS-LIK is a fully SMB dedicated pure IP communications system without compromising well trained voice features. Single infrastructure of iPECS-LIK helps customers tailor made deployment. Every single component of LIK can be installed on the network without geographical limitation and can be managed by single point of web administration. Based on the transparent infrastructure, LIK also supports system redundancy, local survivability and scalability.

Customers can also save operational expenditure by having intelligent solution offering. Distributed architecture enables remote G/W functionality so that users’ can keep their phone bills as light as possible. LIK also provides SIP trunking, T.38 functionality and single infrastrucure management for further cost saving. LIK supports wide range of productivity enhancing applications integration such as Unified communcation, Phontage, Mobility, Built in voice mail and UMS.For More Information Please Visit. http://www.voiceipcomms.com/

DZPAC est le réseau de transmission de données d’Algérie Telecom à commutation de paquets selon la norme X25 du l’UIT-T. depuis 1993, ce réseau est destiné à l’interconnexion des équipements et réseaux informatiques.

DZPAC répond à la majeure partie des besoins téléinformatiques :
Interrogation des banques de données,
Consultation et mise à jour des bases de données,
Saisie interactive, …
Transfert de fichiers;
Messagerie;
Télémaintenance, télésurveillance, …

C’est a partir de cet  ex-service que je commence mon billet , le réseau X25 qui utilisé par la plupart de nos entreprises algériennes et étrangères.

La Banque Nationale Algérienne ,décide en collaboration avec Algérie Télécom de migrer vers les réseaux VPN ,empruntant le backbone IP/MPLS National. plus de 500 agences dans le territoire algerien .

Cette migration permettra a la banque une disponibilité de service plus perfomante et d’autres types d’application exemple IPCentrex (ou PABX Privé ) pour utilisé la phonie et la donnée sur le même support .

a rappelez le réseau postal algerien utilise toujours le réseau X25 pour les bureaux de postes.

Bizzare comment ils font pour faire communiquer Racimo avec le X25.

Rappel :

X.25 est un protocole de communication normalisé par commutation de paquets en mode point à point offrant de nombreux services.

X.25 intègre les trois couches basses du modèle OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) qui en comporte 7 :

• niveau 1 : couche physique
• niveau 2 : couche liaison
• niveau 3 : couche réseau
• niveau 3½ : Couche de réseau imperméable, dans la version LAPB de H. Fernandez

Cette norme a été établie en 1976 par le CCITT (puis reprise par l’UIT-T) pour les réseaux à commutation de paquets sur proposition de 5 pays qui l’utilisent pour leurs réseaux publics de communication : Transpac pour la France, EPSS pour la Grande-Bretagne, Datapac pour le Canada, DCS pour la Belgique et Telenet pour les États-Unis.

INTERNET

Voice IP partners with a company who operates its own business class broadband network of ADSLand SDSL giving customers a fast, reliable and consistent broadband experience. Corporate internet solutions provide internet leased line connections to customers wanting higher performance, from 2Mbps to 1Gbps, and additional resilience options.

NETWORKING

Customers can choose from a range of VPN options. Voice IP can supply a IPVPN solution which gives a cost effective solution across our broadband network along with flexible, customisable, any-to-any MPLS networks to reduce costs and simplify operations, while ensuring you meet business demands.

HOSTING

Voice IP can also provide a variety of hosting products including Colocation, Disaster Recovery, Data Backup Domain Hosting and Web Hosting

SECURITY

Voice IP can offer a variety of software Anti-Virus and appliance solutions delivering protection from viruses, spyware, adware, hackers, spam and phishing, and control VoIP, IM, games, and unproductive web browsing .For More Information Please Visit. http://www.voiceipcomms.com/

0800 number has undoubtedly become a successful phenomenon. Businesses around the world use 0800 numbers (also know as toll free, frecall, freephone numbers). This is because it’s quite beneficial to the businesses which use them. In UK too, businesses have realized the need for 0800 numbers. 0800 number gives benefits to not only you but also to your customers. Customers get a free call and you can use this number to market through out the nation by using only one number which creates an impression of local presence in the minds of customers no matter where ever he/she is calling from in UK.

The 0800 number creates a perception of business being more professional, one that is trustable and reachable when ever a customer wants help. This perception results in increase in incoming call traffic, and more business for you through more satisfied pool of customers.

Research has proven that a memorable 0800 number (either by using an easy number combination or a memorable word) is more effective in campaigns than any other numbers as the customer can easily memorize it, which in fact also creates a good impression.

0800 numbers are also known as freephone numbers (or toll free, freecall numbers). Why?

That’s quite logical really. Reason being, 0800 number calls made by the customers are free of charge, they are absolutely free. It doesn’t matter for how long the customer talks to this number he will have to pay nothing.

It follows a reverse mechanism, whereby the business that has this number is charged for any incoming call. The call charges depend on the call package the company is using. So if the customer calls you, they don’t have to worry about the duration or the call charges as you as a business will be paying the cost.

So is it worth having an 0800 number and bare the cost of incoming calls on yourself?

Answer is simple, YES.

0800 number will cost you extra but there are many benefits that can be reaped only if you have an 0800 number. A freecall to customer means more enquiries, better feedback and most important of all satisfied customer. And almost in all cases benefits of a freephone will outweigh its costs.

Memorable numbers (on 0800 numbers) are numbers that are easily memorized by the customer, and they have higher recall ability when a customer wants to call. Through this a business can be able to enhance and increase its incoming call traffic. With these numbers increasing your incoming call traffic, your advertising campaigns can be more successful and get a good response from customers.

Memorable 0800 numbers unlimited combinations. And if you are lucky enough you can get one like ‘0800-business name’, giving you a clear cut advantage over your competitors. This increases your business identity. With a number like this, you can get a greatly increase your sales and promote your business as compared to your competitors.

Memorable numbers don’t necessarily need to be a combination of numbers. Businesses can use memorable words to get make up a number. For example you run a fast food restaurant; you can have the number 0800-BURGER (or 0800-287437). All customer has to do is to remember the word that you have used; rest is easy as the customer only needs to dial that word on the dial pad. The good thing about memorable words is that you can use key words associated with your business or your business name making it very easy for customers to learn and recall.

Memorable numbers are also non geographic numbers. So even if the business is only present locally the number it might give a image that a business is geographically dispersed. This increases your reputations and your ability to increase sales.

It’s not easy for any start up to get customers from the word go. For that startups have to develop some sort of customer trust, develop credibility, and needs to reach out to the whole intended target market. This is easier said, than done.

Now what should the startups do?

There are many marketing techniques that can be used by these businesses. The more effective the technique, the most costly it is. New startups can afford large expenses because they haven’t actually started making revenue.

However, there is one way a business can get recognized and develop a good image for its business and that’s 0800 numbers. It’s now widely being recognized as a useful marketing tool. 0800 numbers creates a professional, more reliable, respectable, reachable and creditable image for your business. 0800 numbers attract customer, because it’s a free call.

There is much more you can do with this number. By choosing the right number or a memorable number, you can actually get the number to be easily memorized by the customer. That gives you the advantage that a customer can recall your number when ever he/she needs it.

0800 numbers for startups can also prove fruitful as it gives a lot of call management features. Features like redirecting of calls is made easier, customer can now easily be redirected to department it wishes to call. It also gives a call queuing facility which allows business not to loose a call, as customers will be listening to music before his call is attended. You can also automate the call attending by various means.

0800 number gives a call statistic feature where by you can summarize the calls coming in to the business. You can keep track of the callers, the average duration of call, time and so on. This helps you to understand the customer better and target market better.

0800 number also makes relocation of the business easier. For any reason you might want to relocate your business you can do that without changing your number. The only thing you will need to do is to redirect the 0800 number to your new landline number.

You can save a lot of cost with this number. And for the advantages mentioned above 0800 numbers are a must for your business. You don’t need any extra equipment just point your 0800 number to your phone and start taking advantage.