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2 unusual facts about Open Settlement Protocol


Open Settlement Protocol

:"to support the market for voice communication and related voiceband communication (such asfacsimile) between users . . . to ensure that users connected to IP based networks can communicate with users in Switched Circuit Networks (such as PSTN/ISDN and GSM), and vice versa."

A press release of September 2, 1998, announced that the industry leaders 3Com Corporation, Cisco, GRIC Communications, iPass, and TransNexus had "teamed up to promote inter-domain authentication, authorization and accounting standards for IP telephony through the Open Settlement Protocol (OSP)".



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