Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Zarlink Semiconductor | Subject: ZL50021 family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 February 2004
TDM switching family integrates Stratum
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A new family of nine low- to mid-density TDM/TSI switches features the industry's widest range of programmable and integrated features.
A new family of nine low- to mid-density TDM/TSI switches features the industry's widest range of programmable and integrated features, delivering performance advantages and driving down costs in wired and wireless network equipment Communications networks are evolving from a circuit-switched to packet switched infrastructure, allowing service providers to offer profitable new services and lower their operating costs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This evolution to a packet switched network is expected to occur over several decades.
Accordingly, designers require more flexible TDM switches optimised for use in networking equipment that must handle both packet- and circuit-switched services.
For example, IP-PBXs (Internet Protocol-private branch exchanges) that support enterprise VoIP services require TDM technology to interface with the circuit-switched PSTN.
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