Benefits of network planning and design and advantages of voice telephony over ATM in a public network

This paper describes the need for a business-driven network planning process and the network vision of Lucent Technologies in a fast-changing, almost exploding, world of telecommunications, At the moment operators cannot predict what the cost and profitability of new service investments will be. Art integrated method has to be used to link business objectives and network investments in a continuing way. An example of the network planning process in an application of voice telephony over ATM (VToA) in the infrastructure of an incumbent operator is given.