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Operations Support Systems Comprehensive Report: Enabling the Next-Generation Network
Format: Perfect Bound, 395 pages
ISBN: 1-931695-05-9
Price:
$495; additional copies
$250; with CD
$595
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OVERVIEW
As network convergence and integration marches forward, winning service providers of all types must have an up-to-the-minute understanding of critical operations support system (OSS) challenges and opportunities that impact their current and future business. As digital subscriber line (DSL) deployments are rolling out in ever-increasing numbers, cable companies are raising the competitive stakes by offering Internet services, and Internet companies are striking back by offering voice services.
The result of these phenomena is that the worlds of information technology (IT) and telephony are converging, leaving all concerned with an entirely new set of management challenges. The greatest of these concerns compatibility and interoperability. Considering the widely disparate elements that make up the telecom industry, operators and service providers must begin asking the following: How can interoperability be achieved? Can it be achieved?
Furthermore, communications providers today are being asked to deliver multiple services to as many customers as possible with the highest quality of service (QoS) possible. To keep revenue high, these providers must provide adequate diversity, consistently high value, quality customer care, competitive prices, and smooth provisioning, trouble-shooting, and service maintenance. Choosing the right support system can help deliver on these demands.
In addressing these issues, the International Engineering Consortium is proud to present the Operations Support Systems Comprehensive Report: Enabling the Next-Generation Network, which focuses on the innovations that are shaping the future of network management in light of the industry's transition to packet-based and wireless networks, broadband services, and converged voice-data architectures.
The Operations Support Systems Comprehensive Report explores network management in an Internet protocol (IP) world, open-system OSS implementation and integration, evolving network architectures, and key OSS business drivers from the perspectives of a wide variety of leading industry professionals. This report is intended to provide unique and informed insights into the challenges involving OSSs today and the solutions and strategies that are being developed to combat those challenges.