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How IP Will Challenge Your Business Model - and Open Up New Opportunities
As data protocols converge on the IP standard, and digitization and compression make it feasible to transmit just about anything in IP packets, customers are gaining the benefits of bandwidth savings, a fast-expanding set of applications, and the ability to run all their traffic on one network. Good news for them - but often a severe challenge to the service provider's business model. In this roundtable discussion, expert practitioners provided updates on the current state of the art and how it is affecting the commercial service provider.