Networking Solutions
■Inexpensive transmission: Wideband calls are often tariffed differently. In the United States, wideband calls are about 30 percent less expensive than narrowband calls.
■Simplified billing: Because there is just one call, there is just one record, making billing and traffic measurements easy.
■Reliability: Because the data stream is not split, there are none of the synchronization problems or individual channel failures that can delay or disrupt narrowband switching of wideband data.
■Faster call setup: Placing a wideband call is faster than placing a narrowband call because ISDN is used and because there’s only one call to place, as opposed to several.
■Simplified administration: Wideband signaling is administered on the DEFINITY ECS switch; handling wideband signaling on a narrowband switch typically requires additional equipment which must be administered separately.
All of DEFINITY ECS’s networking features have been upgraded to handle wide- band signaling, notably:
■Access endpoints
■Administered connections
■Mixed mode signaling
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■Auto restoration
■World Class Routing
■ISDN
These upgrades further simplify the process of combining public and private net- works and enhance the efficiency of combined networks.
