White Paper Abstract:
This paper describes that consolidation of multiple networks and trafc types onto a single WAN backbone creates a large opportunity for substantial bandwidth cost savings and improvement of operations efly-chciency. For this reason, the convergence of voice and data networks is of major interest to large enterprises today. But the benet does not stop there. Data/Voice convergence allows companies to preserve investments in legacy applications and lay a foundation for integrated IP-based applications such as packet voice, integrated call centers, inter-Web business-to-business services, secure extranet suppain management, Web hosting, and electronic commerce-all with the lowest achievable total cost of ownership.