The various applications of such architecture are: We can develop Corporate Intranets which will reduce communication costs drastically. We can also provide value added services such as access to bank databases, railway or airline systems to obtain necessary information. Call centres: Through which efficient customer support can be provided. Web enabled call centres are now being extensively used by service organisations such as banks, 800 call routing systems, telecom operators etc. Real time fax transmission over the Internet for a fraction of cost as compared to the regular faxes using PSTN.

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