The 1999 Local Loop Comprehensive Report

Format: Softcover, 321 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-55-2
Price: $396

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TABLE of CONTENTS

Part I: The Competitive Environment: Business and Regulatory Issues

• The FCC, The Internet, and Data Services
• SBC Unified Messaging: The Trend to Follow in Telecommunications
• The Ultimate Questions: Build or Buy?
• How Should the Decision Be Packaged?
• Access Market Evolution
• Broadband Access Strategy
• The Winning Service Provider
• Fiber-to-the-Curb Is No Longer Enough
• Lessons of Deregulation Applied to Telecommunications
• Local Competition: The Last Mile
• The Local Loop: Business-Market Demand

Part II: Access Technologies and Architectures

• Evolution of the BellSouth Network: Narrowband to Broadband
• Improving Time to Market through Programmable Switching
• IP and ATM Interworking Relationship and Syntheses for Quality of Service
• Fixed Wireless Local Access Solutions
• Fundamentals of Broadband on Copper
• Ameritech.net: High-Speed Internet Service
• Making $$$ and Cents out of Alphabet Soup
• Internet Access Technology: Today and Tomorrow
• The Internet: "The" Business Tool
• ADSL Infrastructure: Constructing an ATM Delivery System
• Unified-Access Platform
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode Virtual Path Rings
• Architecture and Technology Choices
• Multiple Intelligent Services from a Single Enhanced-Services Platform
• Dial-Up Market Trends
• Broadband Access Architectures
  
• Future Network Synergy with Evolving Data Access Topologies

Part III: Services, Applications, and Customer Considerations

• Providing Choice to the General Business Customer
• The Challenge of Providing One-Stop Shopping: The Need for Convergence
• Advanced Telephony Solutions for the Consumer and Business Markets
• SOHO Applications in Silicon
• Small-Business Services' ISDN Rollout

Part IV: OSS in the Local Loop

• Open Access: A Brave New World?
• Out of the Gate with Your OSS in "Tip Top" Shape
• OSS Interconnection: Breakthrough or Burden
• Business Process Organization: Do Not Get Lost in Your Own Bottleneck
• Techniques for Measuring Service Delivered to the User

Part V: Local Number Portability

• Hot Topics in Local Number Portability
• AIN Regulatory and Public Policy Issues: Is Regulation Really Helping?
• Issues and Challenges Related to Number Portability
• Local Number Portability: An International Perspective
• Wireless Number Portability
• Local Number Portability: How Is It Working?
• LNP and Beyond: Leveraging the IN Investment
• Number Portability Management
• The Business Case for Local Number Portability: A Service-Bureau Perspective