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Santech – IIT Research Initiative has been started in January 2007, with an intension of innovation through joint R&D efforts in the areas of-
a) Telecom Convergence Tools.
b) Wireless based device drivers.
c) Convergence Switch.
This joint venture will ultimately lead to the development of Telecom Convergence Switch (TCS) & Soft Switch, where both the parties are providing adequate time and energy to develop these products. The switches should have the Micro-Electronics, Nano- Electronics chips inside, ATM and Signals.
Advantages:-
a) Easy troubleshooting from remote location.
b) Less billing cost.
c) Less mobile weight.
d) Much more efficient than the last generation switches.
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| Signing of MOU between IIT Kharagpur and Santech, January 2007. |
Convergence Switching and the Next-Generation Carrier
The solution to this dilemma is the converged switching architecture—the merger of packet switching technology with SS7 intelligence. As a result of the phenomenal growth of data traffic, technological and cost-performance improvements in packet and cell switching have far outstripped any gains in TDM technology. For example, using the latest advances in silicon-based switching, an ATM–based tandem switch can be built for a small fraction of the cost per port of a traditional TDM–based switch. Moreover, an up-to-date cell switch consumes less power and occupies far less space than a TDM switch.
Convergence switching solutions should include full-featured SS7 support and standard telephony interfaces and fully interoperate with the existing PSTN infrastructure to support all of the voice features to which users are accustomed. Solutions that are based on ATM can deliver toll-quality voice with constant bit rate (CBR), while distributed SS7 processing ensures that signaling scales as rapidly and economically as port count.
A convergence switch that has an architecture with distributed signaling supports the consolidation of SS7 links from multiple convergence switches and therefore offers efficient and centralized operations and billing management. This, along with the use of ATM virtual circuits (rather than TDMs' physical circuit provisioning), greatly improves service operation, management, and administration.
In summary, a converged switching architecture removes the remaining barriers to the cost-effective convergence of voice and data by delivering the following:
- telephony-grade reliability
- toll-quality voice
- full SS7 signaling integration
- extreme scalability of both port count and SS7 signaling power
- an open architecture for rapid, simplified service deployment
A converged architecture can leverage existing investments in infrastructure, like traditional circuit-switching equipment, while supporting the growth in data traffic. The architecture can unify the series of multiple overlay networks that is necessary to communicate today.
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