Re: "Is TDM going the way of dial-up?"

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 03/26/2010 08:26 AM, Steve Meuse wrote:
> Rick Ernst expunged (nanog () shreddedmail com):
>
> > I'm wondering if others are seeing the same behavior, if it's
> > market-dependant, or if I'm just imagining things.  I'm working on building
> > new infrastructure and my current thoughts are to minimize my TDM
> > footprint.  It would be useful to get a better feel if this is an overall
> > trend or something local.
>
> You aren't imagining things. In fact, some large national networks have been designed to support solely ethernet. It 
> comes down to cost, as always....

Speaking of which, what is the state of voip-over-cellular as essentially the
last holdout of TDM? Will the new 4G stuff be able to support latencies, etc?
Has the work on handovers-over-IP matured enough that it's viable?

Mike