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AT&T and Bharti Airtel signed a Network-to-Network Interconnect (NNI) agreement that will give AT&T customers access to more than 100 cities across India via Bharti Airtel’s more than 130 MPLS-enabled IP Network nodes.
AT&T previously operated 8 MPLS network nodes in India (Delhi / National Capital Region, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad).
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From the Graveyard
You just read about Bharti Airtel. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Tata Teleservices Consumer Mobile built Indian CDMA and GSM consumer mobile services, including the Tata Docomo brand. What became of it?
Tata Teleservices Consumer Mobile brought Indian CDMA and GSM consumer mobile services, including the Tata Docomo brand to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its merger with Bharti Airtel. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Bharti Airtel today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about MPLS. Here is what it replaced:
Frame Relay served 1990–2010. What ultimately replaced it?
Frame Relay switched variable-length frames over pre-provisioned permanent virtual circuits, dropping X.25's per-hop error correction (links were now clean) and pushing recovery to the endpoints for far higher throughput. Its job passed to MPLS — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
