[LINK] US FCC now planning "all-IP" phone transition

[Tom Worthington]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/fcc-plans-for-death-of-circuit-switched-phone-networks.ars
> 
>> Telecom carriers increasingly run IP backbones and last-mile IP...
> 
> The mind boggles.  Is anything forward looking like this being planned  
> in Oz?

Yes, discussions of the architecture for the National Broadband
Network (NBN):
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/10/high-level-architecture-options-for-nbn.html>

My assumption was that the NBN will be just one big IP network (using 
IPv6), carrying data, voice and video. But some of the carriers seem to 
want to emulate a network with point to point connections (so if you had 
a smart meter, an IP phone, a PVR and Internet for your computer you 
would need four connections). I assume that otherwise their customers 
will find it too easy to change suppliers:
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/11/designing-national-broadband-network.html>.


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