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Of interest: Internet Telephony moves toward the mainstream (fwd)


Subject: Of interest: Internet Telephony moves toward the mainstream

New AT&T Global IP Telephony Interoperability Lab Opens            02.26.99

  Florham Park, NJ -- AT&T announced that three service providers and seven
network equipment manufacturers will be the first participants in the AT&T
Global IP Telephony Interoperability Lab. This industry test bed will
promote consistent implementation of standards for global IP telephony and
other advanced IP services. AT&T Labs will host the effort at its East and
West Coast locations - in Florham Park, N.J., near the company's
headquarters, and in San Jose in California's Silicon Valley - to enable
more companies to participate.

  The service providers working with the lab - in addition to AT&T -- are
Delta Three, GRIC and @Home. The participating network equipment providers
are Cisco Systems, Clarent, Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Siemens, 3COM and
VocalTec.

  "Next-generation IP services must be as reliable and must work together as
well as the telephone network we've built over the past 100 years," said
David C. Nagel, AT&T Labs president and chief technology officer for AT &T.
"We're looking forward to working with many of the players in the global IP
telephony industry to make that a reality."

  "Clearly AT&T's Interoperability Lab has struck a responsive chord. Many
of the top players in the industry have joined us in taking a leadership
role to solve the issues surrounding interoperablity," said Kathleen B.
Earley, vice president, AT&T Internet Services. "We'll be addressing a wide
range of issues, right down to the technical nuts and bolts of exchanging
billing information, and making certain that companies' network management
tools interoperate effectively."

  The Interoperability Lab is housed in AT&T Labs facilities where experts
test telecommunications equipment before deployment in AT&T's network. Each
participant is installing its IP telephony products. A variety of wired and
wireless transmission media is being used to simulate several real-world
network environments, including a home, a home office, an office complex and
a community. The phones and computers of the hundreds of employees
throughout the Florham Park facility are being connected to the lab and will
serve as part of the test bed. Integration with AT&T's IP platform lab in
San Jose will allow testing of the entire spectrum of IP capabilities,
including the ability to make settlements among a group of IP service
providers.

  Interoperablity Lab participants will team to develop and implement joint
test plans and evaluate results, to further the evolution of products and
services toward full realization of the potential of IP telephony.

  For more information http://www.att.com/ipservices or
http://www.att.com/attlabs


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