A momentous transformation is taking place in the development of enhanced telephony services – a shift from vertically integrated embedded systems to distributed Internet architectures. Telephony applications based on CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA will continue to be valued in the central office, but the effects will be far-reaching as more modular equipment emerges into the marketplace. Chief among these modular components will be the new category of “mainstream” media servers, that is, a media server that addresses any network – not just IP, along with more familiar offerings like media gateways and application platforms.
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