NECA Releases 2007 "Trends" Report

NECA RELEASES 2007 "TRENDS" REPORT
[SOURCE: National Exchange Carrier Association ]
The National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) released Trends 2007: Building Tomorrow’s Network, a report that shows how NECA member companies in rural America are evolving their networks to support high speed Internet transmission and delivery of video content in order to meet the needs of their customers. There are now 1,054 members of NECA’s traffic sensitive pool, providing over one million DSL lines. This is a substantial increase from the 814 companies that were providing DSL in 2003 and an even more substantial increase from 1999 when only 151 members had a total of 20,000 DSL lines. The progress being made by rural telecommunications companies goes far beyond the ability to provide DSL to their customers. NECA member companies are increasing their use of fiber so they can offer more bandwidth and extend the reach of their networks. They are migrating to packet switching using network routers and softswitches and deploying their networks using packet transmission based on ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), IP and Ethernet technology.
http://www.neca.org/source/NECA_News_4941.asp

* Trends 2007: Building Tomorrow’s Network
http://www.neca.org/media/Trends2007_final_web.pdf