In today's crowded and confusing telecom marketplace, determining the right strategic direction is the key to differentiating your company from the pack and to attracting and retaining the best customers. Here's the book that helps you do just that!
Offering telecom service providers a survival strategy based on customer-centered marketing, this forward-looking resource helps strategic planners and managers assess their company's market potential and target desirable segments successfully.
Written by today's leading experts in industry and academia, Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the convergence of wireless and Internet technologies that are giving rise to the mobile wireless Internet. This cutting-edge resource provides you with an overview of all the elements required to understand and develop future IP based wireless multimedia communications and services. The book shows you how to integrate the latest technologies in mobility, wireless, and the Internet to achieve workable end-to-end solutions. You get detailed coverage of wireless IP and its relationship with other mobile technologies such as GPRS and UMTS. Moreover, this essential reference features discussions on wireless IP evolution; quality of service; resource management; TCP/IP in wireless IP networks; handoff, mobility and signaling; and services and applications. Essential reading for practicing mobile communications engineers, designers, and engineering managers, the book is also easily adoptable as a text for graduate-level courses.
This newly revised edition of the ground-breaking Artech House bestseller, SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol gives you a thorough and up-to-date understanding of this revolutionary protocol for call signaling and IP Telephony. The second edition includes brand new discussions on the use of SIP for wireless multimedia communications. It explains how SIP is powerful "rendezvous" protocol that leverages mobility and presence to allow users to communicate using different devices, modes, and services anywhere they are connected to the Internet You learn why SIP has been chosen by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Program for wireless cell phones) as the core signaling, presence, and instant messaging protocol.
Here's everything you want to know about PLC technology, theory, applications, and installation organized for you in the first definitive English-language book on the subject. You get a solid theoretical grounding on this emerging alternative to Wi-Fi and Ethernet together with best-practice examples of PLC deployments and down-to-business procedures to install PLC in the home, design large-scale PLC networks for businesses and communities, and choose the right technology and equipment for any application. A state-of-the-art reference, how-to guide, and problem-solver wrapped up in one complete source, this benchmark work brings you quickly up to speed on PLC network architecture, functionalities, security issues, and applications. You get details on PLC modems, transformers, and other equipment along with PLC installation and configuration guidelines that cover everything from choosing the topology for a PLC network to configuring parameters under Windows or Linux/BSD. The book spells out steps to install PLC in homes followed by design and configuration procedures for PLC business networks that cover all issues involving network architecture, standard and equipment selection, security, and other essentials. The book also explores the development of community-wide PLC networks and the emergence of hybrid PLC-Ethernet-Wi-Fi applications. Supported by real-world examples and 280 illustrations, this hands-on resource takes you to the cutting edge of power line communications and helps you tap its rich potential moving forward.
"This book presents state-of-the-art research, developments, and integration activities in combined platforms of heterogeneous wireless networks"--Provided by publisher.
If you have the responsibility to design, upgrade and manage data networks to carry IP Telephony (voice, video and data); need help in evaluating competing IP-Centrex and IP-PBX systems; or need guidance in specifying the parameters for a service level agreement for IP-Centrex, this unique reference provides you with the knowledge you need to get the job done right. It enables you to more accurately estimate the time and resources needed to implement IP Telephony in your organization. The book describes the IP-Centrex option of having the telephone company take responsibility for the service delivery and offers the kind of information service providers need to improve marketing and sales campaigns for IP-Centrex services.
Although IP and WDM technologies are expected to become the dominant network technologies, they will be introduced gradually complementing and replacing current ATM and SDH network solutions. This book represents a comprehensive review and research results for the deployment and management of IP over WDM Networks with guaranteed service level agreements.
Staking a claim of the radiocommunications spectrum will be key, as more and more telecommunications companies turn to wireless services to sustain profitability, and in some cases even maintain viability. They are preparing to fight hard for their share of the limited resource that is the radiocommunications spectrum. To ensure your company wins the battle for spectrum, this book maps out the strategies required for structuring entry and operations in the spectrum. Learn how to master the lobbying, technical, regulatory, legal, and political tools needed for success.