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align="left" height="86" width="120">On November
4, Tom Wheeler was sworn in as the new Federal
Communications Commission chairman and shortly
thereafter signaled that he had a great interest
in promoting the "IP Transition" in the United
States. The FCC has been studying this transition
for about a year now, looking at how to manage the
switch from old copper-line telephone and data
communications technology, such as the T1 lines
familiar to many libraries, to newer "Ethernet"
technology based on the Internet Protocol (IP).
Large telecommunications companies would like to
discontinue their support for the old technology
because it is expensive for them to maintain two
different technologies in their networks. But
consumer advocates warn that any transition must
not leave people in areas that have only copper
infrastructure without necessary communications
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.fcc.gov/blog/ip-transition-starting-now">The
IP Transition: Starting now</a> (Official FCC
Blog/Tom Wheeler) "Fiber networks are expanding.
Bonding technology is showing interesting
possibilities with regard to the nation's
traditional copper infrastructure.
Communications protocols are moving from
circuit-switched Time-division Multiplexing (or
TDM) to IP. And wireless voice and data services
are increasingly prevalent, empowering consumers
to connect at the place and time of their
choosing. This is what I have called the Fourth
Network Revolution, and it is a good thing.
History has shown that new networks catalyze
innovation, investment, ideas, and ingenuity."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57613089-94/fcc-chairman-us-phone-system-needs-internet-makeover/">FCC
chairman: US phone system needs Internet
makeover</a> (CNET/Steven Musil) "While many
consumers already make phone calls on the
Internet using voice over IP, which transmits
large amounts of data in packet form, much of
the nation's telephone infrastructure still
employs less-efficient analog technology.
Wheeler, who won Senate confirmation as the
commission's chairman late last month, wrote in
a blog post Tuesday that he expects the
commission to vote in January on a package of
recommendations to speed the initiation of
experiments and analysis of their outcomes, as
well as consider the associated legal, policy,
and technical issues."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/2013/11/19/the-ip-transition-what-is-it-and-what-the-debate-is-about/">The
IP Transition: What is it and what the debate
is about</a> (GigaOM/Stacey Higginbotham)
"Wheeler can call it the Fourth Network
Revolution or whatever he wants. The transition
is already happening, it's the FCC's job to
figure out how to do this without causing a loss
of access and problems for millions of Americans
who still rely on the copper network. It also
means we need to ensure that cellular and VoIP
9-1-1 actually gets help to people when they
need it and that VoIP services are reliable in a
crisis. It also means that customers have access
to a voice network even if they are in rural
America and that access shouldn't come with
expensive strings attached."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/12/who-will-upgrade-the-telecom-foundation-of-the-internet.html">Who
will upgrade the telecom foundation of the
Internet?</a> (O'Reilly Radar/Andy Oram)
"Everyone knows that Internet technologies, such
as voice over IP, are less reliable than plain
old telephone service, but few realize how soon
reliability of any sort will be a thing of the
past. When a telecom company signs you up for a
fancy new fiber connection, you are no longer
connected to a power source at the telephone
company's central office. Instead, you get a
battery that can last eight hours in case of a
power failure. A local power failure may let you
stay in contact with outsiders if the nearby
mobile phone towers stay up, but a larger
failure will take out everything."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>T1
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">If all
goes as planned, OPLIN will complete its own "IP
Transition" sometime next summer, as we replace
the last of our old T1/DS3 circuits with Ethernet
connections.
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