IP and the Intelligent Network: Services, Architectures, Deployments, and Convergence Drivers

Format: Softcover, 298 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-88-9
Price: $495

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FEATURES

• Discusses next-generation service creation and provisioning
• Looks at IN/IP integration strategies and progress
• Provides an IN status overview and explores future prospects
• Addresses network reliability and security issues
• Explores market demand and potential in many regions of the world
• Explains customer needs, expectations, and acceptance
• Explores business markets, marketing, and pricing strategies
• Chronicles the migration from circuit-switched to IP–based networks
• Determines target network architectures
• Addresses traditional telecom-provider concerns
• Highlights common misconceptions of the data world
• Explores major architecture options and the new spaces open to IN and IP networks

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

• What is next for IN?
• What role will network intelligence play in next-generation networks?
• How do providers sell next-generation services?
• How do we build environments to deliver next-generation services?
• What will the next-generation network look like?
• To what extent will IP networks of the future utilize the intelligent network platforms deployed today?
• What would be the optimal integration scenario for these platforms?
• What types of services will effective IP and IN integration enable?
• What are the reliability and security issues?
• 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?
• What is the best framework for service creation and execution in an IP–based network?