The Slow Road to Network Transformation
Telco data networking services, though they carry mainly IP traffic, make little use of Internet technology. There are good economic and competitive reasons for this, not least the extreme difficult of changing the operations processes and attendant systems which make up the majority of Telco costs. So most network change will remain evolutionary. NextGen vendors would sell more equipment to carriers if they paid more attention to transitional value propositions (interworking with both existing network and OSS) and proportionally less on waiting for a network revolution which may never arrive.
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1 September 03
