Convergence and the death of the traditional telco
It sounds such an appealing term, ‘convergence’, conjuring up an image of things neatly slotting together. There is some indication of it in the worlds of IT and telecommunications, as proprietary forms of communication and interconnection are being replaced by one unified approach — IP, the internetworking protocol at the foundation of the Internet.
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