In This Issue:
Executive Perspectives
Critical insights from key industry leaders
The IEC's Executive Perspectives allow industry professionals and students alike to learn from leading key experts' insights and experiences. Viewers can access answers to pressing industry questions and challenges instantly with this learning opportunity.
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John Giere
Chief Marketing Officer, Lucent Technologies
Recorded at 21st Century Communications World Forum
Mr. John Giere, chief marketing officer of Lucent Technologies, shares his perspective on the importance of IMS, carrier advantages of IMS deployment, Lucent's interest in the global market, Lucent's future and its relationship with Alcatel, consolidation in the industry, and more.
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Hakan Eriksson
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ericsson
Recorded at 21st Century Communications World Forum
Dr. Hakan Eriksson, senior vice president and general manager of Ericsson, talks about traditional operators and competition with cable companies in multimedia, how successful they can be, how Ericsson can help, the services telcos can offer, Ericsson's iNode Softswitch and its deployment, and more.
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Technology Briefing
Broadband Trends:
Service Awareness and IPTV
Educational Content Provided by Entrisphere
Advances in access equipment are changing the way multimedia services are provisioned. Newer GPON and VDSL2 technologies, which are replacing ATM-based access networks, provide service awareness at higher network layers, thereby shifting the role of policy enforcement out of the B-RAS and into the access equipment itself. This article discusses how service-aware IP networks can automatically determine the QoS required for each application and then translate those requirements into specific policies. Read more...
Home Networking and Home Gateways
Educational Content Provided by ECI Telecom
Home networking can be seen as the battleground on which carriers will fight for customer ownership. Carriers are looking for ways to offer a wide range of advanced and differentiated services in the network and via smart, branded home gateways. This article examines the home gateway market, content distribution technologies, and home networking standards activities necessary to win this battle. Read more...
Media Spotlight
If Content Is King, DRM May Be Queen
John Williamson, Editor of Convergence World
In the context of successfully commercializing new-generation multimedia services, a conventional wisdom in the telecommunications industry is that "content is king." This may be an irrefutable industry maxim, but the realization has also dawned that managing access to content probably has equal majesty. Read more...
Analyst Corner
The Analyst Corner features perspectives from a range of leading information industry experts.
Profiting from convergence
Defining growth paths for telecom service providers
Jeanette Carlson, Global Communications Sector Lead, IBM Institute for Business Value
Chris Woodland, Senior Telecom Industry Consultant, IBM Business Consulting Services
Henry Stevens, Global Wireless Strategy and Solutions Leader, IBM Business Consulting Services
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Upcoming Events
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September 11-14, 2006
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September 12-13, 2006
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Conference
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Exhibition
10-12 October 2006
CNIT La Defense, Paris, France
Conference 10-11 October 2006
CNIT La Defense, Paris, France
Featured Publications
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Each year the Consortium brings together into one unique resource the most current thinking and practical experience of industry professionals around the world on a variety of topics facing the information industry. This 700+ page reference tool is a must for executives, managers, engineers, analysts, and educators in all sectors of today's changing information industry.
Round out your corporate or personal library with all four volumes in this instructive series:
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Executive Perspectives
