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Byline: Sarah Z. Sleeper
Skinny Networks Put
Normal Telecoms On Diet
The environment for telecoms shifted with the advent of upstarts offering Internet Protocol-based phone service. For the last few years, traditional circuit-based carriers like BellSouth Corp. have been competing with tiny Net2Phone Inc. and other newbies.
Now the carriers themselves are incorporating IP. That's at least in part because IP gear is skinnier in the middle and cheaper, analysts say.
"The old way is to buy very big, expensive, centralized equipment," said Jonathan Rosenberg, chief scientist at IP gear maker Dynamicsoft Inc. That's different from the Internet model, he says, where the edge of the network is built up.
Rosenberg is co-author of Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, the standard on which much of the new telecom gear is based.