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1999 Carrier IP Telephony Comprehensive Report
Format: Softcover, 311 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-60-9
Price:
$396
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OVERVIEW
One technology is fast becoming the de facto standard for communications and will, according to some estimates, be responsible for handling billions of minutes by 2002: Internet protocol (IP). Given the present and potential impact of this technology, the International Engineering Consortium is pleased to present its 1999 Carrier IP Telephony Comprehensive Report, which extensively examines IP telephony from the service provider's perspective, addressing the problems and possibilities associated with the future of telecom transport.
How can established and emerging carriers leverage IP telephony service? This report answers that crucial question, presenting a valuable compilation of the latest research and most provocative insight from a broad range of industry professionals. Here, service providers will find in-depth analysis of the issues that must be resolved before IP telephony can achieve carrier-class status.
At present, the IP telephony market remains somewhat volatile from both business and technological perspectives, and it faces a host of quality of service (QoS) challenges. This report discusses necessary QoS improvements as well as interoperability, regulation, security, legacy-systems interfaces, and real-time capability requirements for IP telephony, examining both the progress made in these areas as well as work yet to be done.
Undeniably, IP telephony offers many benefits to service providers in terms of integrating voice and data networks, addressing the need for multimedia communication, and reducing costs as a result of circumventing international settlement and access fees. Voice over IP (VoIP), IP fax, IP multicasting, IP VPNs, and IP-based videoconferencing are some of the key applications of the emerging packet-based network, and these, among other enhanced services, are explored in depth by the 1999 Carrier IP Telephony Comprehensive Report.
The next-generation network will be characterized by a high-speed optical infrastructure deep within the access segment, distributed intelligence, packet-switched data communications, and value-added services. Refine your strategy for creating and leveraging this new-millennium network by examining the role of IP in service-provider networks now and in the future. The 1999 Carrier IP Telephony Comprehensive Report is intended to help you gain this type of competitive edge in the data communications world of tomorrow.