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Focuses on several issues and access products that must be considered by incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC) to stay competitive. Upgrading of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology to support advanced applications; How to solve the distance constraints of DSL; Migration of switching systems to handle packet-based technologies; Integration of voice and data access platforms for corporate and residential customers. INSET: Software still rules.

Deals with the application of the multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) technology in telecommunication network. Introduction of Lucent's TMX880 Multiservice Xchange Switch; Decision of Alcatel to add more strength to its asynchronous transfer mode switch.

Evaluates the Clearsight Analyzer suite of products that let companies receive alerts about user-defined problems detected in application-level protocols before a user submits a trouble ticket, from Clearsight Networks. Statement of company marketing director Bill Berkman regarding how they are helping clients monitor the services their information technology departments provide by using out-of-the-box solution; Use of the product to network administrators; Demonstration of the products' features.

The article discusses the possibility for the convergence of optical technology and packet technology. The author offers two possible scenarios that could lead to the convergence which include the integration of a simple optical technology into the packet layer and the integration of the packet technology into the optical layer. Operators lament about the difficulty of migrating optical transport organizations to Internet Protocol (IP)/Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).

The article examines the benefits and disadvantages of provider backbone transport (PBT) as a simpler alternative to multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). Providers of PBT guarantee that it is simple to use compared to MPLS. However, MPLS equipment vendors point out that part of the reason PBT is so simple because it could be provisioned manually. Moreover, carriers of PBT would need a control plane to provision those PBT pathways.

This article presents information on packet switching in telecommunication. Packet switching made ingenious use of lots of unused moments in any telephone call when tiny silences between words create holes during which the circuit is not carrying anything. Your speech into the phone is broken up into individual packets that go out into the system like a fleet of trucks carrying parts of what you say. The Internet works this way to transfer data across circuits that form a web. ARINC and other broadband services that emulate the Internet are moving packets..

Reports on the observation made from the Millennium Skyline Project that Class 5 switches are nearing the end of their life cycles. Impetus behind the investigation; Details of the Class 5 migration plans; Need to upgrade technology.

Highlights the transition of Global NAP from an all-circuit-switched network to an all-packet network. Limitations of circuit switches; Benefits of using packet switches; Role of Convergent in the effort.

Reports on issues for United States incumbent carriers who are planning migrating toward packet-switched voice networks. Involvement of fundamental change in network architecture; Incumbents' testing of equipment that will add packet capability to existing networks; Costs involved with migration to packet; Network stability as a great risk.