The VoIP offer is part of a sweeping focus on enterprise networking services. Ambitious plans for further expansion are in the works. That curbs the risk of unleashing an all-out price war.
Customers can make VoIP calls to intracompany destinations or off-net.
3Com Total Control 1000 VoIP gateways. When the service debuts in March, IP Communications customers' traffic will run as IP over WorldCom's worldwide frame relay and ATM networks. In the future, the service will extend onto WorldCom's managed IP network and public IP network. WorldCom developed its own SIP server to support the service. H.323 has been struggling with interoperability issues for years and is a telephony-based protocol.