IEC Newsletter
March 2008, Volume 2
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In This Issue:
Always on, Always Connected

Executive Perspectives
One-on-one interviews with industry leaders
Giorgio Bertolina Giorgio Bertolina
Chief Executive Officer
Italtel
Q.
Italtel previewed Second Life, an innovation that brings together virtual reality and real life at the most recent Broadband World Forum Europe. Tell us about this exciting innovation that Italtel brought to life with Telecom Italia.
A.
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Dom Stasi Dom Stasi
Chief Technology Officer
TVN Entertainment
Q.
Video on demand has brought new challenges to the industry such as an ever-increasing need to move high volumes of content. How has your team addressed this issue?
A.
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Technology Briefing
White papers covering news, studies, and trends

Mobile broadband is evolving and developing so rapidly that soon it will become more widely used than the fixed broadband. This article describes how VoIP is transforming our world into an always-on community.
Web ProForum
Tutorials featuring the latest technical and business issues
Internet telephony refers to communications services-voice, facsimile, and/or voice-messaging applications-that are transported via the Internet. This tutorial discusses the following:
  • The rapid evolution of Internet telephony
  • Market forces fueling the evolution
  • User benefits
  • Underlying technologies
Definition and Overview
  1. Intranet Telephony Paves the Way for Internet Telephony
  2. Technical Barriers
  3. Standards
  4. Future of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony
  5. Self-Test
  6. Glossary
Analyst Corner
Perspectives from leading information industry experts
Analyst Corner PDF Lorenza Brescia interviews Roberto Saracco on the disruptive technological innovations that will affect the evolution of telecommunication market and on the role that service providers, and in particular Telecom Italia, will have to play in order to respond to the challenges presented by potential new players such as Google or Microsoft.


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