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Carrier IP Telephony 2000 Comprehensive Report
Format: Softcover, 337 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-75-7
Price:
$495
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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 Carrier IP Telephony 2000 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.
Key questions answered in this report include the following:
- What opportunities and challenges must carriers consider before deploying IP–telephony services?
- Given the segmentation of the Internet-telephony market, how might companies proceed to make IP telephony a commercial reality?
- What kind of value-added IP services can carriers offer customers, thus differentiating them from the competition?
- What quality of service (QoS) improvements must be made before IP telephony can achieve carrier-grade status?
- What innovative new voice, fax, and video applications are made possible by IP technology?
- What future applications are expected to emerge as a result of advances in IP–telephony technology?
- What difficulties are associated with migrating from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks?
- What is the revenue potential of providing guaranteed high-speed access to dial-up modem users?
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 virtual private networks (VPN), 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 in the Carrier IP Telephony 2000 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 Carrier IP Telephony 2000 Comprehensive Report is intended to help you gain this type of edge in the data communications world of tomorrow.