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Internet protocols come to the rescue of phone networks in Italy
by Guy Kewney | posted on 28 May 2003
Cisco has teamed up with Italtel, and will move the mobile phone world one step nearer to an all-Internet technology by installing the "mobile signalling infrastructure" for Wind Telecomunicazioni - instead of traditional mobile routing methods.
Cisco and Wind say this use of Internet routing techniques is a first.
"This solution demonstrates that Cisco IOS software is capable of supporting mobile networks based on SS7 every bit as effectively as dedicated technologies which use Signal Switching Points," said Massimo Migliuolo, VP of mobile sales worldwide for Cisco. "It's more cost competitive," he added.
The core of the new system is a Cisco 7513 Internet router, running IOS - IP Transfer Point (ITP) software.
Cisco says the hardware was put in a year ago; and that it will allow Wind to handle network traffic at "around a third of the cost" of a traditional mobile signalling system.
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