Network World

Replacing the PSTN with VoIP: Not If, But When

As thirty-year telecom veterans, we’ve seen our share of changes in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) that includes the replacement of electromechanical switches with digital switching, the ...
Network World

PSTN security concerns linger

Continuing our discussion on PSTN security, today we’d like to take a look at some excerpts from a June 2001 report from the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. We ...
Business Wire

Sigfox France Demonstrates the 0G Potential in Response to the Scheduled Shutdown of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Within three years, all switched networks will have disappeared and most of them will be replaced by exchanges based on the IP protocol, with or without wires. This ...
EDN

Device bridges PSTN to cellular network

The BridgeD130 is a PSTN-to-GPRS converter that connects wired modems to wireless networks. The plug-and-play gateway can be fitted to security systems, industrial machines for recording and/or ...
Computer Weekly

Openreach puts a stop to copper for another million UK premises

A year before deadline approaches, BT broadband provision division maintains momentum of national upgrade transition plan.
No Jitter

The IP Transition Part 2: Enterprise and Consumer Impact

Some of the devices now supported on the PSTN will have to be re-engineered for the IP connection, at considerable cost to the enterprise and consumer. Communications providers, especially AT&T, have ...
Computer Weekly

UK businesses risk disruption as PSTN switch-off approaches

Critical systems such as payment processing, CCTV, security devices and internet of things (IoT) solutions, as well as voice services, are at risk of disruption due to UK businesses being “alarmingly” ...
ZDNet

BT next-gen network to roll out from November

Rollout of BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) will start in November following successful trials, the telecoms giant said on Wednesday. In a test situation using multi-service access nodes (MSANs) at ...
TechRadar

Critical national infrastructure can’t afford to delay PSTN migration

The UK's analogue Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is in its final phase. The current network was designed to support the nation’s first telephone exchange and get people talking. But as ...
No Jitter

Power Consumption and Cooling Cost Implications of the PSTN IP Transition

With the PSTN to IP transition will come the reduction of central offices, power consumption, carbon emissions and costs. But will those savings be passed along to consumers and enterprises? The ...
EDN

The Strength for Switching

Before the general public can experience true multimedia over the worldwide communication network, mediation switches have to be built to handle the transition to such next-generation networks. These ...