As thirty-year telecom veterans, we’ve seen our share of changes in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) that includes the replacement of electromechanical switches with digital switching, the ...

Spark has unveiled a five-year plan to scrap its aging circuit-switched public telephone network and replace it with IP technology. The new network will underpin fixed and mobile voice services, video ...

Experts are warning that some are "woefully underprepared" for the switching off of the PSTN, the tech behind analogue landline phones.

Critical systems such as payment processing, CCTV, security devices and internet of things (IoT) solutions, as well as voice services, are at risk of disruption due to UK businesses being “alarmingly” ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Within three years, all switched networks will have disappeared and most of them will be replaced by exchanges based on the IP protocol, with or without wires. This ...

BT is urging businesses still using analogue landlines to switch to digital by the end of next year, as the UK’s historic copper telephone network approaches the end of its life. The call comes as a ...

Before we wrap up our series on the PSTN transition to VoIP, we suggest there is at least one more big issue that needs to be addressed—the security of voice calls on an all IP network. Consider, for ...

London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services, warning over its impact to vulnerable ...

General Dynamics C4 Systems will add a new public switched telephone network (PSTN) feature to the Sectéra vIPer universal secure phone in a $2.8 million contract awarded by the National Security ...

Equipment connected to the public switched-telephone network (PSTN) sometimes needs to detect polarity reversals of the battery feed. One common application is the Direct-Inward-Dialing (DID) service ...