If you’ve ever tallied your company’s spend on Cisco products and compared it against what you spend with other telecom and IT suppliers, in most cases, it’s as large or even larger. Yet this fact often sits below the radar in most shops because the vast majority of companies do […]
AT&T to Withdraw Broadly Used Non-Ethernet Access, Non-Ethernet Private Line and Non-IP Toll-Free Service In early December, we let you know about AT&T’s Withdrawal of Service Matrix. We expressed surprise that only POTS/TDM telephony voice services were included in AT&T’s December 3rd chart, and opined that “AT&T’s VTNS service . […]
AT&T Gives a Hint on When it Plans to Discontinue Key Voice Services Many Enterprise customers understand the dangers of the carriers’ online terms and changes to them, but few have time to keep up with it all. A recent move by AT&T demonstrates the importance of keeping abreast of […]
Major technology changeovers come with one great thing and one lousy thing in addition to the prospective cost savings. The great thing is the natural ability to competitively bid since you’re starting fresh with a new service that neither your incumbent nor anyone else currently has installed with you. The […]
It wasn’t so long ago that AT&T and Verizon would stall on selling you SIP Trunking until they finally realized you weren’t kidding and they had to hustle to make sure you actually bought their SIP Trunking service, not somebody else’s. Now it’s a different world. AT&T and Verizon are […]
In today’s Brave New World of enterprise telecom, MPLS has supplanted private lines, frame relay and ATM as the backbone of data networks. At the same time, SIP trunking is well on its way to replacing TDM-based PRI’s for voice. By the end of this decade – at the latest […]
