[EAS]Voice Traffic on Internet

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Subject:   Voice Traffic on Internet

(from NewsScan Daily, 3 October 2000)

C&W TO MOVE ALL VOICE TRAFFIC TO INTERNET
UK telecom giant Cable & Wireless is planning to shift all of its
voice  traffic over to a new IP-based network within three years,
in a move that  highlights the speed with which the Internet is
undermining traditional  telecommunications systems. Although all
the major telecom operators,  including AT&T, British Telecom and
Deutsche Telekom, are investing heavily  in IP networks for data
transmission, C&W will be the first to migrate its  entire voice
service to the Internet-based system. Mike McTighe, head of  C&W's
global operations system, says each incremental minute of voice 
traffic transmitted over an IP network costs only a fourth as much
as the  same traffic transmitted over conventional circuitry.
Nortel Networks has a  10-year, $1.4-billion contract to build and
manage the new network for C&W. 
(Financial Times 3 Oct 2000)
http://news.ft.com/news/industries/telecommunications