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IP Applications and Services 2003: A Comprehensive Report
Format: Spiral-Bound, 391 pages
ISBN: 1-931695-12-1
Price:
$495
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FEATURES
- Chronicles the migration from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks
- Examines current migration strategies and progress
- Provides an overview of network convergence and defines the key characteristics of converged services in the next-generation network (NGN)
- Evaluates solutions for NGNs and the effects of introducing NGNs in both fixed and mobile/wireless network infrastructures
- Reviews the various services and technical challenges of third-generation (3G) mobile/wireless networks
- Identifies valuable deployment strategies and philosophies for mobile and wireless data services
- Pinpoints emerging technologies that help service providers to bring new services to market quickly and efficiently
- Analyzes the current markets for and the potential growth of key IP service categories
- Discusses next-generation service creation and provisioning
- Addresses the leveraging of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to deliver next-generation services
- Probes the various issues and challenges related to the deployment of enhanced services, with a focus on technological developments, end-user expectation, and service delivery
- Covers the recent advancements in instant messaging (IM), unified messaging (UM), and unified communications (UC), as well as the impact of these technologies on end users and the revenue opportunities that they present to wireless and wireline carriers
- Explains customer needs and expectations for quality of service (QoS)
- Describes innovative customer-service, marketing, pricing strategies for building a loyal customer base
- Explores operations support system (OSS) requirements for service assurance
- Considers major network architecture and design options and describes major parameters useful in making architectural and design decisions
- Highlights and addresses common assumptions and misconceptions of the voice and data worlds
A Sampling of Questions Answered
- How do providers sell next-generation services?
- How do we build environments to deliver next-generation services?
- What business models are being adopted to enable next-generation voice services?
- What role does the Internet play in the delivery of voice-based services?
- Can there be commercially viable location-based services today?
- How do next-generation services compare with traditional services?
- What will the next-generation network look like?
- What will be the killer applications of tomorrow's IP network?
- What are the key markets for the converged network?
- How can these markets be served?
- What are the business drivers shaping this network?
- How can the converged network offer seamless services?
- Must an application change to accommodate new interworking protocols?
- What is the best framework for service creation and execution in an IP-based network?
- Which new services will generate the revenues necessary to provide the base for company growth?
- How can service providers reduce cost?
- How can providers deliver carrier-class service to a mass market and still sustain reasonable business positions?
- How is "carrier class" defined?
- What does a carrier truly need in today's IP–centric world?
- What VPN technologies are carriers actually likely to deploy, and what will the edge of the network look like moving forward?
- How does one go about selecting a network architecture when faced with the current perplexing array of choices?
- What are today's requirements for the IP infrastructure to deliver service quality and assurance?