Contents : - Acronym Guide - Business Case for Evolution to Next-Generation Networks - Service Creation:Who Is in Control? - Internet Business Models for Next-Generation Voice Services - The Next-Generation Service Provider:Building the New Public Network - Profitability in Intelligent Network Services - Telecommunications Hosting Opportunities - Gaining Market-Share with Service Flexibility - The Future of Communications - How to Expand Intelligent Networks to Next-Generation Service - Firewalling and Caching in a Signaling Environment - The Evolution of Softswitch Architecture - End-to-End Architecture for Next-Generation IP Networks - Profitable IN:An Oxymoron? - Services at the Edge - A Multiservice Applications Platform - I Robot:IP Switching and Softswitches - Promising Applications,Perplexing Strategies:Competing Application Server Architectures for the New Network - Network Requirements for Voice over Packet - Native Ethernet Metropolitan-Area Networks - An API Based Architecture Enabling Integrated Services - Switching the Switches:The Circuit Switch Is ON...to Packet - Internet Offload:Exploring Outsourcing Call Control as an Alternative to Self-Deployment - Convergent SS7 Signaling for Seamless Service Deployment - The SCP as a Bridge from TDM to VoIP - MGCP and MEGACO:Where Is the Industry Today? - IP Architecture in the Network Core - Managing Feature Interaction in an NGN Environment - Internet-Based Multimedia Schemes Help Remote Automation and Control Applications - Exploring Next-Generation Converged Service-Creation and Execution Environment Architecture - Security Risk Management:Challenges for Today and Tomorrow - It is Time for Customer-Based Not Component-Based SLAs! - Multivendor OSSs:The Challenge Is Speed - Service Integration:Marrying SLAs to Service-Provider Business Applications - IPDR.org Overview - The Magic behind Making IP VPNs a Reality:IP Network and Service Management - Service-Provider Environment and IP Service Assurance - Building a Scalable Security Zone - Standards Progress and Industry Efforts Status - QoS Metrics for SLA Management - IP Communications - The New Public Network and New Opportunities for Service Providers - Evolution of Carrier Backbone Data-Network Requirements - Subscriber-Sensitive Convergence Services - Location-Based Services:The Convergence Revolution and the Power of Where - The Power of Personal Preference in a Location-Based World - Three Key Areas for New Mobile Intelligent Network Services:Location, Location, Location - Enhanced Services for GSM, TDMA,CDMA, and 3G Networks - Unified Messaging - What Third-Party Developers Want - Deployment in a Third-Party Environment - Enhanced Mobile Services from a Start-Up Perspective - The Future Direction of Mobile IN Services - Telco versus IP Service Creation and the Role of Softswitch - WIN Yesterday and Today - Next-Generation Services:A Service Developer is Perspective - Integrating Enhanced Voice Collaboration Services in a Converged Network