| Finally a tier one with guts ?! Deploying VoIP in a carrier network through to the lat mile is not your basic SOHO LAN. Qwest has an ATM backbone that could maybe support the QOS and traffic shaping that differentiated services require. That said, there are a few obstacles that Qwest needs to overcome to gain acceptance:
1. Improve the reliability of the current Qwest ATM network (in 1999 it sucked - it may be better now).
2. Do NOT neglect bandwidth management of the last mile (i.e. provide a residential broadband router that supports MPLS or other diffserv QOS.) The technology is here, carriers and subscribers just have to use it (read $$$).
3. Do NOT support any VoIP products that ride on Microsoft TCP/IP stack. Otherwise you will get RAZzed 
Spork may be right about carrier trunking only - Qwest has been doing it for years. This news could just be spin to jack up the shareholder value. |
