Managing the PSTN Transformation

XI

Preamble

e IP transformation blueprint described in this book is the product

of countless hours of hard work by hundreds of individuals over

almost 2years. It is not just a theoretical cookbook that tells you how

this could work. is actually happened—we at Deutsche Telekom

migrated the entire public switched telephone network in Macedonia

to an Internet protocol-based platform. Our colleagues in Macedonia

and everyone else who supported them are real pioneers, within the

Deutsche Telekom Group, and within the entire industry. We are pub-

lishing our IPtransformation blueprint because the lessons we learned

and the experience we gained in ...