Will the Deutsche Telekom soon be giving up ISDN business? Consequences for investments in TC systems

There has already been a great deal of talk about this: it looks like the Deutsche Telekom will be replacing its ISDN connections with so-called “Sip Access” by 2014. No official announcements have been made by the German telephone giant as yet. However, the termination of all business and private “comfort” connections in the middle of the year by the Deutsche Telekom, as well as their offer of switching these to their IP-based “Call & Surf” service, speaks volumes. Everybody is talking about All IP at the moment, including those responsible for the Telekom’s internal telephone network, which means you don’t have to be a prophet in order to be able to predict the end of ISDN. There is one problem however: no successor standard exists!

A new forum throws light on the situation
The Deutscher Verband fuer Post, Informationstechnologie und Telekommunikation e.V. (DVPT – the German Association for Post, Information Technology and Telecommunications), Germany’s largest interest group for business users, is concerned about this development. “Those who use ISDN connections for business purposes cannot plan any future investments in technology at the moment”, complained Wolff, Head of the Executive Board of the DVPT. The DVPT has now established the “VOICE+IP Germany” forum together with the VAF Bundesverband Telekommunikation e.V. (The German Telecommunications Association) and the BITKOM e.V. (The Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media), in order to answer the questions posed by users and providers and start a qualified discussion in this area.

Information straight from the source
Germany’s most important international convention for TC, IT and mobile communication took place on the 3. and 4. November. During this conference, the potential consequences of a discontinuation of ISDN offers were discussed, among other things. Would you like to obtain information regarding the results of the conference straight from the source and download the lectures? You can obtain access to the “VOICE+IP Germany Community” after registering via the link below: www.voice-ip-germany.de/index.php

We will keep you up-to-date
The future belongs to IP-based services and applications. Clarity is watching the technological developments in this area very carefully, and can already show you what possibilities the future will bring. Christoph Pfeiffer, Clarity’s CEO, explains: “It will be possible to operate the current TC systems from Clarity with any available standards in future, as our software-based systems can be flexibly adapted to match any conditions. Customers are therefore purchasing security for the future. Furthermore, expensive hardware can be dispensed with, as the complex conversion between internal VoIP and ISDN/PSTN systems will no longer be needed.”

Have you got any questions regarding New Generation Telephony, the ISDN changeover, etc.? We would be happy to help you!

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