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JUNE/JULY NETWORKS • IP/IP-PBX • VOIP • SIP • SOFTWARE • SERVICE telecom reseller.com
2014
AUDIN
KARASZI
SONNER MEDAK
BYRD
McFARLAND
PETERSON
RICHARDS
SEE PAGE SIP GLOBAL ROLL-OUT TO
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Oct 26-29 acuta.org
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by Gary Audin

The IP 


Transition 


Saves the 


Carriers



T
he IP transition has been discussed
at length, stimulated by the FCC, and 
pushed by the carriers. What has not been
discussed are the savings that will accrue to the 
carriers after the IP transition begins. These are 
the savings that will be the result of reducing the 
number central offices (CO) in the U.S. by 85%. 
The carriers will save on real estate and operating 
costs. Their OPEX will decrease.
At the recent Genband Perspectives 14 
conference, this was one of the topics presented 
by David Walsh, President, and Chief Executive 
Officer of Genband.
A paper was provided to the attendees at the 
conference, “The Unsustainable Power Costs 
Behind one of the Oldest Public Utilities.” The 
theme of the paper is “The power consumption 
and cooling costs of one of the oldest public 
utilities in the world - the public switched 
telephone network (PSTN) – are skyrocketing. 
Better known as plain old telephone service 
(POTS), the PSTN is used by 60 percent of
the residential population and almost all US 
businesses.”

Legacy PSTN OPEX is High
The carriers continue to maintain the PSTN. 
The PSTN contains equipment that requires 
significant power and real estate to operate. The 
annual power requirements of the legacy COs 
are about 12 billion kWh per year in the U.S. 
This annual power consumption can power 
about 1 million homes. The carrier’s annual expected power savings is about $1.3 billion by 
transitioning to the IP CO network.
The real estate to support the legacy switches
is also huge. The paper estimates that eliminating 
the legacy COs will save up to 10,000 square feet 
of space per CO. The total U.S. space saved can be 
as high 300 million square feet.
Another benefit of the IP transition that is not

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