Product Description: Covering all topics related to strategies and experiences on quad-play service design and delivery, the guide points out that packaging together multiple services onto a single customer-friendly bundle have actually led to positive results, such as customer loyalty to service packages and a highly reduced churn rate...read more

Product Description: Broadband is one of the ICT industry's fastest growing and most popular technologies, and this volume offers a platform for experts to explore broadband's many facets, including Ethernet and fiber optics, and addresses the impact it has had on services and products at a worldwide level...read more

Product Description: As communications of all kinds have migrated to IP, this technology only becomes more complex and harder to implement. However, companies that don't integrate their service over IP will lose in the not-so-long run. In one volume, global specialists have come together to discuss topics such as voice over Internet protocol, security and privacy, voice quality and coding, and telecommunications markets and regulations and answer questions such as How is the telecommunications market meeting the challenges posed by growing networks? How can providers deliver its services in a profitable manner? and What are the obstacles in moving towards next-generation networks...read more

Product Description: As systems become more sophisticated and accessible, organizations must devote more time, effort, and money into keeping them invulnerable. This volume provides answers to such questions as How can network technologies and applications be simplified? What is the future of software in regards to security and quality? and What are the security challenges posed by the growing voice technologies...read more

Product Description: Addressing such topics as wireless planning in health care and in the marketplace, this volume also explores software-defined radio, satellites for internet communication, and gateway mobilities. Full of useful applications, it ultimately helps readers better comprehend the direction towards which wireless networks are leading society and the efforts launched to meet these challenges...read more

Product Description: IMS is an open, standardized, operator-friendly, next-generation multimedia architecture for mobile and fixed IP services. IMS holds great promise for the industry, especially as it merges with the Internet and the cellular world through fixed-line services and cellular technologies to provide ubiquitous access, Internet technologies, and appealing new services...read more

Product Description: An indispensable reference publication for telecommunication and information-industry professionals. Each year, the IEC brings together into one unique resource the most current thinking and practical experience of industry leaders around the world on a variety of topics facing their areas of specialization...read more

Product Description: An in-depth piece that focuses on how companies can migrate their traditional networks to broadband—yet support new services without sacrificing the quality or profitability of either—this guide discusses which technology should be deployed and what the network impact of delivering such emerging services is...read more

Product Description: Service Providers have been examining the prospect of delivering pay-TV services as part of a "triple play" of video, voice, and Internet services. They understand the technology of IPTV now they need to know that the technology has moved beyond the discussion stage and can actually be implemented...read more

One of the most popular offerings telecom companies now provide is the triple play, which consists of voice, video, and data, all from one company and with one bill. This book addresses the challenges and benefits of offering converged services and looks at how the new technology is affecting companies and customers.

Product Description: Focusing on the current forward momentum of IP applications and services, this practical resource offers a varied range of perspectives on the current status and future directions of IP communications.

Product Description: To remain competitive, service providers must develop a wireless strategy that coordinates offerings and networks between their wireline and wireless broadband infrastructures, and this book presents today's most viable broadband business models and market strategies, highlighting ways to retain customers while increasingly profitability...read more

Product Description: Examining the evolving role and nature of network intelligence, this guide explores how Internet protocol (IP) and the intelligent network (IN) will work together in the emerging next-generation network (NGN). The report analyzes the IN infrastructure and its usefulness with IP and discusses methods to derive value in a converged network space...read more

Product Description: This report addresses issues related to delivering products and services over broadband, including the technical and business challenges of providing multimedia entertainment, video and other services on demand, interactive television, the wireless Web, videoconferencing, telemedicine, and more...read more

Product Description: This guide focuses on the issues, innovations, strategies, case studies, and policy choices that will affect all communications systems and the information that flows over them in the near future. The report covers such topics as network monitoring and recovery, risk analysis and evolution, disaster-recovery planning, resilient emergency services, security in wireless LANs, and the best-practices for combatting cyber-crime...read more

Product Description: Focusing on the most promising broadband applications and services and the business strategies that are most viable to ensure favorable return on investment, this report is authored by industry professionals and examines the current and potential markets for a range of broadband applications and services and offers business strategies that providers can adopt to help ensure profitability...read more

Product Description: This 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...read more

Product Description: Designed to help readers understand the very latest optical developments, technologies, architectures, and market trends driving the next-generation network, this comprehensive report of all-optical networks (AON) is a critical resource for any communications company that hopes to tackle today's optical networking challenge...read more