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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WHO SHOULD READ THIS REPORT

• Application service providers whose products and services must be closely tuned to the IP network of tomorrow
• Competitive local-exchange carriers that must compete with incumbent operators by providing innovative enhanced services and superior customer care
• Incumbent local-exchange carriers that must integrate circuit- and packet-switched networks, address delay and latency issues, and offer toll-quality reliability over legacy infrastructure
• Interexchange carriers that seek to provide end-to-end, integrated communications solutions to key customers
• Regulators that will shape the future of IP telephony through continued policy making
• Consultants whose clients will rely on IN– and IP–based services for the future
• Equipment vendors that must keep up to date on the converging voice/data network and the role the IN plays in that convergence
• Network operators that must make capital-intensive decisions about what type of network to deploy and how
• University professors whose courses and research activities must keep them abreast of the latest developments in IN and IP convergence