Telephone Network Assignment
CIS 3320
Summer 2005 - MW
Prof. Sergo
By: Vince Lin
Part I:
Dear potential investors,
As some of you may know, "The Telecommunications Act of 1996" is responsible for competitive local exchange carriers today, otherwise known as CLECs. What makes a "CLEC" so special? First of all, CLECs were created to compete with incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC), such as ALLNET, and Regional Bell Operating Companies. The reason was to halt the current monopolization held by regional Bell companies and to free up competition. An advantage a CLEC has is the availability to use the infrastructures of competing ILECs. One way CLECs utilize this advantage is through the utilization of unbundled network elements (UNE), which is any "facility or equipment used in the provision of a telecommunications service including features, functions, and capabilities that are provided by means of such facility or equipment." The local loop is a crucial UNE......
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