The Local Loop: Access Technologies, Services, and Business Issues

Format: Softcover, 373 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-34-X
Price: $396

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. The Competitive Environment and Markets

• Transition to the New Local Loop: Required Capabilities
• Local-Loop Access and Interconnection: Can CLECs Survive in the Local Market?
• Winning Strategies for Local-Exchange Services
• Opportunities and Challenges in Broadband and Multimedia for the Local Loop
• Local Number Portability: Can the Incumbents Afford It?
• New Service and Revenue Opportunities in the Local Loop
• Performance Standards: Key to Interconnection
• Local Competition: The War of Many Against One (1996–2001)
• Winning Strategies for Growing and Sustaining Revenues in the Era of Convergence
• Electronic Commerce Market Demand versus the Potential of Loop Access Technologies
• Economical Fiber-in-the-Loop

II. Regulatory Progress

• State Progress and Problems in Interconnecting the Local Loop
• Leveling the Local Playing Field: Telecommunications Reform Comes to Main Street
• The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Implementation and Implications
• Telecommunications Competition and Universal Service: The Essential Tradeoffs That Must Be Made

III. Technologies, Operations, Services, and Applications

• Network Routing Scalability in ADSL Systems
• Fiber Access Architectures for Broadband Services: A Review of the Available Technologies
• Direct Satellite Service Access Tutorial
• The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
• ADSL: Opportunities along the Information CopperHighway™
• Clean Architectures as a Key to Flexible Growth
• Time Warner: Orlando, Florida and Rochester, New York
• Lessons Learned from the Deployment of Telephony over HFC: A Case Study
• Network Architecture: Which Way to Go?
• Using TMN for Service Management in the Local Loop
• Optimizing the Infrastructure: Past, Present, and Future
• End-to-End Connectivity: The Foundation of Broadband Networks
• High-Bandwidth Services over Copper Plant
• Data Services in the Local Loop
• Residential Broadband Data
• From POTS to Interactive Multimedia Services
• Winning the Battle for Data Services in the Local Loop
• Digital Video: Ready for Prime Time
• Broadband Local Access Architectures
• Fiber Antics: Practical Lessons in Building a Municipal Fiber-Optic Network
• Early Broadband Deployment in an Electric Utility
• SNMP Management for ADSL
• Rejuvenated ADSL Scores High
• The Role of Object-Oriented Database Technology within Telecommunications
• The Full-Service Network from a Low-Density Perspective
• Business and Customer Operations: Object-Oriented Billing

IV. Customer Considerations and Marketing

• Promotions Issues in the Competitive Local-Exchange Network
• Understanding End-User Selection of Information and Entertainment Channels
• Data Warehousing for Marketing and Customer Care
• Customer-Contact Systems: The New Competitive Background
• Changes in Household Purchases of Telecommunications Services and the Need for Branding and Bundling

V. Wireless in the Loop

• A Wireless Local Loop Business Case
• Wireless Access
• Wireless Technologies in the Local Loop: The Case for PACS
• Terrestrial Wireless Access Systems for the Local Loop
• Wireless Broadband Future: Utilizing 38 GHz
• Radio Local Loop Based on DECT: Enhancements to Increase Capacity