On Wednesday 06 May 2009 05:56:50 pm Bernard Wanyama wrote: > NGN is a reality in Uganda - I can confirm that they have > enterprise-grade MPLS (l2vpn, l3vpn) over fiber, E1, > xDSL, Ethernet, serial, etc across the country. Really > good stuff, if you ask me.
Well, if you ask me, the whole idea with so-called NGN is a platform where you deliver voice, data (and perhaps video/Tv) over IP. Are UTL transporting the country's voice calls over IP, internally? Is 100Mbps Ethernet running to the home, regardless of whether Internet runs on it or not? MPLS != NGN; anyone/anything can run MPLS. Have the applications converged, is the question? Whether that's important or not, could be debated. However, vendors have successfully impregnated our minds with this thing called NGN, the only real thing happening is they are making money selling hardware. Where has that left us? They're a handful of operators, in the world, that have switched off a good portion, if not all, of their legacy PSTN/PDH/SDH kit, and moved over to DWDM + IP + MPLS. Where are we? Mark.
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