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The Regional Bell Holding Companies are worried that the long online sessions required by enhanced service providers which include Internet service providers will soon overload their systems and possibly disrupt their services. Possible solutions include the modification of the design of the system for the central offices (COs). This will involve adjustments both in the front-end and in the back-end of COs. The asymmetric digital subscriber line technology can also be a solution for decongesting switches., Carriers are crying 'uncle.' As dial-up Internet usage surges, the impact on switched voice networks - which were designed to handle short. duration voice calls, not lengthy online sessions - [...]

Just in case you're the Rip Van Winkle of the '90s ... or you've just returned from any outer space other than cyberspace ... here's what you need to know. […]

Telecomputing is seen to make its mark in history as the most important development in human communication for its ability to eliminate time and distance constraints. Such merger of telephone, computer and video technology has brought sweeping changes to a number of fields, such as medicine, education, government, banking and media, among others. It has paved the way for telecommuting, distance education and telemedicine, three of the most revolutionary methods of communication that will redefine life in the 21st century.

The local loop has practically touched every American home and business. Copper wires were originally used by the local exchange carriers since 1980. However, other service providers are using a different medium in the communications network. Fiber optics have been used to replace copper wires. However, the local loop market may take about 10 more years to get organized. Legislation needs to be established to let in more competition in the market., First it carried only voice, then data and increasingly video. New applications demand new solutions. The local loop touches virtually every home and business in the U.S. While local loop [...]

The information highway has revolutionized the way companies and organizations conduct their business. Advances in telecommunications and computers have resulted to an increase in the demand for 'corporate facilities' which offer access to telecommunication services. A new sector which is rapidly gaining attention is the multimedia environment, which allows companies to increase their computing and processing power regardless of geography.

A CTI For Management[TM] Exclusive Interview To help you gain insight on how CTI may affect the way you do business. we have interviewed several experts in the CTI industry [...]

Computer-telephony integration (CTI), which connects telephone systems with computers to improve information sharing and increase productivity, promises tremendous benefits for telemarketing. Specifically, CTI promises to make both inbound and outbound [...]

The telecommunications innovations rocketing out of the Northwest are transforming the whole planet and hold important implications for connecting Alaska to the 21st century. A sense of excitement, not seen […]

Editor's Note: This month's column is addressed by Louis J. Volpe, vice president of marketing at GeoTel Communications Corporation, a provider of open, standards-based software solutions for enterprisewide call distribution [...]

The credit industry stands to benefit from the deregulation of the telephone industry since this has given rise to new opportunities and technologies affecting services and voice equipment. For instance, the cost of telephone services at the local level could fall with the increasing use of digital facilities in delivering local trunks by local competitive local access providers and telephone firms. Integrated predicting dialing systems, computer telephone interface systems, integrated voice response systems and other evolving technologies also promise to be a boon to the credit industry because they provide the means to enhance customer service. These technologies can likewise help improve the efficiency and productivity of telephone call centers. The industry would do well to keep track of evolving technologies given their potential benefits.

The emergence of new telecommunications technologies and the changing shape of the telecommunications industry will have a profound effect on the way companies do business in the years ahead. The innovative services and products that telecommunications companies will offer in the future and their potential effects on businesses necessitate careful study by CIOs. Deregulation, reengineering and the trend towards globalization of industries are the factors behind the array of new telecommunications products and services.

Summary: Telephone and cable television companies have been forming alliances and taking other steps to ready themselves for the interactive TV market. But the overriding questions are whether consumers really [...]

Spread spectrum radio which incorporates maximal linear code sequences are used widely in military and civilian communications. Maximal linear code sequences are produced by shift registers of certain length. The registers which generate pseudo-random signals have selected outputs which pass only through the OR gates and are fed back into the shift registers. Maximal codes have suitable mathematical properties for application in spectrum communications.

Future local area networks using more powerful hardware and applications will overwhelm the capabilities of existing 10BaseT technology. Three alternative technologies have emerged that can address the need for increased bandwidth. These are FDDI-over-copper unshielded twisted-pair wiring, 100-Mbps Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). ATM will support any communication type and has scalable bandwidths, but has a higher initial price than the other technologies., 10BaseT wiring hubs and concentrators have transformed our LAN-scape. They have stimulated the evolution from physical bus to star topologies, provided a uniform wiring scheme and facilitated LAN installations and [...]

Wireless PBX equipment will eliminate telephone lag for users of cellular communications equipment by allowing users to be available wherever they are located. Few users are purchasing wireless PBX equipment, however, because of the high cost of between $750-$2000 per connection per user. Wireless PBX actually are multi-part telecommunication systems consisting of a hand-held telephone which acts as a transceiver and a stationary unit that receives information. The practical transmission range of wireless PBX systems is limited to 60-130 feet which severely constrains their utility., It's no surprise that corporations are on the lookout for technology that can help their executives and staffs pack more punch into the business day. To that end, the success [...]

Publishing applications of digital telecommunications technology was highlighted by electronic transmission of high-quality images. Pictures from a Formula One Grand Prix held in Imola, Italy were transmitted to the publishing house in New York, NY, with a total transit time of two minutes and fifty-two seconds. The image was scanned and digitized, was sent out through an earth station to London via telecommunications satellite and passed through two high-speed telecommunications networks., The race is on: A young photographer shoots a Grand Prix in Italy and sends high resolution color from trackside to New York The great transworld photo dash is coming [...]

Bridges, tunnels, airports, high-speed-rail systems, and telecommunications networks are among global super projects creating new links among the world's peoples. Global development projects are revolutionizing people's lives. They are the [...]

Virtual networks are public networks that are augmented by intelligence. The value of the market for interexchange intelligent network services was $6.4 billion in 1992 and may be as high as $9.2 billion by 1997. Intelligent Network offerings include Advanced 800 Service, network management and control functions and data communications. The applications of virtual private networks include management accounting and intracompany communications., Last year, Kentucky's Secretary of State was looking for an effective, inexpensive way to register approximately 800,000 eligible voters. The solution: A toll-free voter registration line that allows voters statewide [...]

Collaboration is a sign of maturation. A child is nurtured at home before venturing into the world. An idea is first developed then introduced to a larger community. We work […]

Three years ago Denise Gore was a sales executive managing 3,000 salespeople in five states out of her Nashville home. Then she discovered a way to continue her education at [...]

The Telstra corporation of Australia may refuse to fund improvements to the telecommunications infrastructure as further regulations encouraging competition are introduced by the government.

Intelligent networks are the glue that holds the Internet and traditional telephony together IP-based networks will speed up the decentralisation of intelligent network (IN) architectures. But the paradox is that […]

Gerald Taylor, President and Chief Operating Officer of MCI Communications Corporation, spoke with EUROPE Editor-in-Chief Robert J. Guttman about the MCI-British Telecom alliance, CONCERT, the telecom revolution, and telecom deregulation [...]

FOR as long as the modern computer industry has existed, seers have forecast its convergence with the telecommunications business--and been proved wrong. But fundamental changes in the way PCs are [...]

New age technology is obliterating geography. By redistributing economic power around the world, it is creating a footloose economy that permits firms to locate in a variety of nontraditional venues. [...]

Analog fiber systems are revolutionizing fiber optics transmission with the use of radio frequencies instead of digitized information. Digital fiber transmission uses light pulses to transmit encoded data in ones and zeros through glass fibers, while analog fiber transmission uses AM radio signals to modulate the intensity of light launched into similar fibers. The need to increase cable television capacity led to this analog-radio innovation, since most television sets are fitted with AM tuners and cable TV transmission equipment are in analog form, thereby making digital transformation costly., Broadband analog and fiber make strange bedfellows, but hybrid fiber/coax proves analog nostalgia is here to stay and winning converts every day. AM Radio. Hard to believe anyone listens to [...]