Enhanced Services on the Next-Generation Network Comprehensive Report

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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Business Issues, Market Drivers, and Deployment Factors

• Enhanced Services for Small Businesses: The Opportunity for Integrated Communications Providers
• The Next-Generation Network
• An Introduction to IP Telephony
• Integrated Voice and Data over T1
• IP Telephony: The TCO Value Proposition
• The Evolution of VoIP Networks: Marketing and Technical Drivers
• Voice-Enabled E-Business: Unlocking E-Business Opportunities
• Canadian Unified-Messaging Marketing Perspective
• The MTU Connection
• Intelligent Network Marketing Trends
• One Network Service Provider’s View of Transitioning Services to a Combined Wireless-Wireline Network
• Strategies for Accelerating Carrier-Packet Profits
• Marketing IN Business Services
• Paycheck: Brought to You by Your Customer
• Marketing and Future Goals of IN Messaging Services
• Leveraging Messaging for Increased Profitability
• Outsourcing Enhanced Services: The Dilemma Facing Communications Service Providers
• Value and Business Effects of the Internet on IP Telephony

Part II: Network Architectures, Technologies, and Solutions

• Beyond Dial Tone: Opportunities for Value in IP Telephony
• Fine-Tuning Voice-over-Packet Services
• An Overview of Circuit, Packet, and SS7/C7 Networks
• Transporting Voice over IP: The Issues of Quality, Echo, and Latency
• The Utilization of Mobile IN Technology for Deployment of Value-Added Services
• Distributed Data Retrieval—Architecture for Messaging Spoken-Name Configuration
• Deploying a Dynamic VoIP Firewall with IP–Telephony Applications
• Securing VoIP Networks with Specific Techniques, Comprehensive Policies, and VoIP–Capable Firewalls
• Realizing Packet-Based Multiservice Networks: Elements for Achieving Predictable Service Levels in IP Networks

Part III: Services and Applications

• Unified Messaging Applications
• Value-Added Services: The Key to Differentiation in Next-Generation Networks
• Unified Messaging—Achieving the Promise of Convergence
• The Voice Web
• Rich Instant Messaging
• Intelligent Network Messaging
• Putting the Service Back into Service Providers
• Implementing an Active User Interface: Leveraging Next-Generation Communications Services through the User Interface
• Service on Voice Portals
• New Features Using Service Node
• Privacy Manager
• VPN Customized Announcements and Intelligent Network Prepaid
• IP Telephony in the Call Center: Two Worlds Converging
• Cable-Based Telephony Service: A Strong and Viable Opportunity
• Next-Generation Services and Strategies
• IP–Telephony Services in the New Public Network

Part IV: Standards, Regulations, and Quality-of-Service Issues

• Achieving Carrier-Class Quality of Service and Reliability: Policy-Based Networking
• IP Telephony: A Regulatory Update and Forecast
• Internet Telephony and the (Un)regulation of the Internet
• SIP and Other IETF Standards Update