Abstract
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
