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From the Graveyard
You just read about Sprint. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
Nextel Communications built Nationwide push-to-talk mobile operator. What became of it?
Nextel Communications brought Nationwide push-to-talk mobile operator to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its merger with Sprint for US$35B. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside Sprint today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — 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.
On this day
October 5From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.