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US ARMY Marches Towards VoIP, Unified Communications.
The Army plans to migrate all of its circuit-switched voice communications to packet-switched voice-over-IP technology, said Col. Scot Miller, head of the organization that builds and runs the Army’s global telecommunications network.

The transition to VOIP, implementation of a unified communications architecture and the movement to centralize IT applications in area processing centers are the three primary initiatives that will dominate the agenda of the Army’s networking group for the foreseeable future, Miller said.

The Defense Information Systems Agency, as the lead agency responsible for the Pentagon’s networks and IT systems, is evaluating VOIP to assess whether it meets the strict availability and operational standards that are necessary before it can be used to carry command-and-control voice calls for the military. DISA likely won’t approve the use of end-to-end VOIP technology until 2009 or 2010, Miller added.
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Verizon Business will provide its resources for the modernization and upgradation of telecommunications infrastructure on US Army posts, camps and stations worldwide in future.

The Federal Network Systems, a unit of Verizon Business is among the ten prime contractors selected by the US Army to take part in future bidding for task orders in its $4billion Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity(IDIQ) Infrastructure Modernization(IMOD) program.

The program would be in affect from June 2007 as the Digital Switched Systems Modernization Program expires by then.

Verizon, which has good track record of helping US Department of Defense in the will put its inputs to enhance network capabilities and improve bandwidth around the world.

As the US defense is marching towards EoIP (Everything over IP), Verizon Business will supply its advanced VoIP technology to guide the government in this direction.

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