We’ve just published a guide on the PSTN/Analogue Switch Off, the move from copper-based technologies over to full fibre by Openreach, the BT division responsible for the physical infrastructure, or ...

As thirty-year telecom veterans, we’ve seen our share of changes in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) that includes the replacement of electromechanical switches with digital switching, the ...

National operator Openreach (BT) has today warned that "more than half a million business lines" still haven’t migrated away ...

Critical systems such as payment processing, CCTV, security devices and internet of things (IoT) solutions, as well as voice services, are at risk of disruption due to UK businesses being “alarmingly” ...

London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services, warning over its impact to vulnerable ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Within three years, all switched networks will have disappeared and most of them will be replaced by exchanges based on the IP protocol, with or without wires. This ...

Today, we’d like to get back to a few basics about the relationship between the public-switched telephone network and voice over IP. The PSTN includes a signaling system, a series of central offices ...

Some of the devices now supported on the PSTN will have to be re-engineered for the IP connection, at considerable cost to the enterprise and consumer. Communications providers, especially AT&T, have ...

Rollout of BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) will start in November following successful trials, the telecoms giant said on Wednesday. In a test situation using multi-service access nodes (MSANs) at ...

The BridgeD130 is a PSTN-to-GPRS converter that connects wired modems to wireless networks. The plug-and-play gateway can be fitted to security systems, industrial machines for recording and/or ...

With the PSTN to IP transition will come the reduction of central offices, power consumption, carbon emissions and costs. But will those savings be passed along to consumers and enterprises? The ...