Enhanced Services on the Next-Generation Network Comprehensive Report

Format: Softcover, 355 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-98-6
Price: $495

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FEATURES

• Delineates the business challenges and opportunities of implementing next-generation, converged voice/data/video networks
• Offers concrete business examples of successful enhanced-service applications and network architectures
• Compares the advantages and limitations of circuit-switched and packet-based networks
• Provides insights into IP telephony as the basis for next-generation communications systems and applications
• Explains why integrated communications providers and other companies are migrating toward VoIP
• Explores the range of emerging applications and services made possible with IP transmission and its related technologies
• Characterizes the business drivers and strategies involved in deploying and operating value-added services on a converged IP network
• Discusses marketing tactics that can be used by companies wishing to inform the public and their customers about emerging intelligent services
• Describes the current regulatory environment surrounding the building and deployment of packet and IP–based networks and the intelligent services that run on them

QUESTIONS ANSWERED

• What kinds of enhanced, multimedia, integrated applications will be available on the next-generation network?
• What are the key considerations when investing in next-generation enhanced services?
• What are the market forces currently driving the migration toward IP telephony and the mass deployment of intelligent services?
• What have been the results and market acceptance of previously deployed enhanced services?
• How will intelligent services be deployed to meet the needs of the global telecommunications market?
• What are the projected revenues for enhanced services on the next-generation network in the United States and the rest of the world?
• What will be the drivers behind the forecasted revenues for the IN and IP industries?
• How can providers leverage intelligent messaging and other IN services to increase profitability?
• How do circuit-switched networks and packet-based networks differ in their technological make-ups and in their market advantages?
• How can service providers create opportunities to differentiate themselves in the marketplace with new and compelling voice-based Internet services?
• How can providers ensure quality of service in next-generation IP networks?