The employment of packet based data protocols and the number of services and applications which they can carry has blurred the distinction between traditional telephony services and the emerging data services. Consequently, single service network operators are losing out to those that have exploited new technology to provide multiple service solutions. A typical broadband offering might mix pay TV with telephony and fast Internet access. Simultaneously there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of broadband capacity available for backbone provision.
Several options are now available to remove that restriction.
Geneva has been successfully deployed as the billing system of choice for providing multiple service solutions for carriers able to close the broadband 'last mile'.