Deutsche Telekom Finalizes Transition To IP Telephony For 25 Million Customers

Deutsche Telekom said that it has completed the transition to IP telephony for 25 million private customers. This equals 99 percent of all Telekom’s customers in Germany. The remaining customers will be provided with IP telephony by the end of this year. Following the transition to IP telephony, the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data transmission platforms for DSL and ISDN connections will no longer function at around 20,000 locations.

Telekom supplies customers with data transmission at 100 Mbps speeds or more trough the IP protocol. The new network infrastructure is based on the Broadband Network Gateway. In total, around 98,000 elements of the network had to be linked to the BNG infrastructure to fully activate IP connections. The transition to IP technology enables business customers to use cloud-based solutions such as Telekom’s DeutschlandLAN and Cloud PBX. The mobile network can also be used to access the cloud, combining telephony and internet.―Telecompaper