IP and the Intelligent Network: The Road to Convergence

Format: Softcover, 344 pages
ISBN: 0-931695-03-2
Price: $495

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Market Drivers and Business Issues

• Business Case for Evolution to Next-Generation Networks
• Service Creation: Who Is in Control?
• Internet Business Models for Next-Generation Voice Services
• The Next-Generation Service Provider: Building the New Public Network
• Profitability in Intelligent Network Services
• Telecommunications Hosting Opportunities
• Gaining Market-Share with Service Flexibility
• The Future of Communications

Part II: Network Architectures and Solutions

• How to Expand Intelligent Networks to Next-Generation Service
• Firewalling and Caching in a Signaling Environment
• The Evolution of Softswitch Architecture
• End-to-End Architecture for Next-Generation IP Networks
• Profitable IN: An Oxymoron?
• Services at the Edge
• A Multiservice Applications Platform
• I, Robot: IP Switching and Softswitches
• Promising Applications, Perplexing Strategies: Competing Application Server Architectures for the New Network
• Network Requirements for Voice over Packet
• Native Ethernet Metropolitan-Area Networks
• An API–Based Architecture Enabling Integrated Services
• Switching the Switches: The Circuit Switch Is ON . . . to Packet
• Internet Offload: Exploring Outsourcing Call Control as an Alternative to Self-Deployment
• Convergent SS7 Signaling for Seamless Service Deployment
• The SCP as a Bridge from TDM to VoIP
• MGCP and MEGACO: Where Is the Industry Today?
• IP Architecture in the Network Core
• Managing Feature Interaction in an NGN Environment
• Internet-Based Multimedia Schemes Help Remote Automation and Control Applications
• Exploring Next-Generation Converged Service-Creation and Execution Environment Architecture

Part III: Standards, Quality of Service, and Operations Support Systems

• Security Risk Management: Challenges for Today and Tomorrow
• It's Time for Customer-Based—Not Component-Based—SLAs!
• Multivendor OSSs: The Challenge Is Speed
• Service Integration: Marrying SLAs to Service-Provider Business Applications
• IPDR.org Overview
• The Magic behind Making IP VPNs a Reality: IP Network and Service Management
• Service-Provider Environment and IP–Service Assurance
• Building a Scalable Security Zone
• Standards Progress and Industry Efforts Status
• QoS Metrics for SLA Management

Part IV: Enhanced Services

• IP Communications
• The New Public Network and New Opportunities for Service Providers
• Evolution of Carrier Backbone Data-Network Requirements
• Subscriber-Sensitive Convergence Services
• Location-Based Services: The Convergence Revolution and the Power of Where
• The Power of Personal Preference in a Location-Based World
• Three Key Areas for New Mobile Intelligent Network Services: Location, Location, Location
• Enhanced Services for GSM, TDMA, CDMA, and 3G Networks
• Unified Messaging
• What Third-Party Developers Want
• Deployment in a Third-Party Environment
• Enhanced Mobile Services from a Start-Up Perspective
• The Future Direction of Mobile IN Services
• Telco versus IP Service Creation and the Role of Softswitch
• WIN—Yesterday and Today
• Next-Generation Services: A Service Developer's Perspective
• Integrating Enhanced Voice Collaboration Services in a Converged Network