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VoIP and Enhanced IP Communications Services
IEC Publications, Feb 2005, Pages: 294
Next-generation communications–be it voice, multimedia, or wireless–will be characterized by distributed intelligence and MPLS–based, packet-switched communications. As enterprises turn to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and service providers begin to migrate their voice traffic to IP–centric infrastructures, communications companies must carefully examine the role of IP in service-provider networks now and in the future. VoIP and Enhanced IP Communications Services focuses on the current forward momentum of IP applications and services.
This valuable report compiles the real-world experiences of industry professionals to provide you with the background and insight necessary to help you succeed in this evolving industry. VoIP and Enhanced IP Communications Services provides an in-depth exploration of VoIP applications, services, network architectures, business models, deployments, and future technology trends. It also addresses carrier IP network management, reliability, and quality of service (QoS) issues.
Offering a varied range of perspectives on the current status and future directions of IP communications, VoIP and Enhanced IP Communications Services is a practical resource for any company looking to achieve growth and gain competitive advantage in today's IP world.
- Presents and in-depth discussion of prospective new VoIP applications and services and their potential for new revenue generation
- Explores the current race between telcos and the MSOs to provide the voice, video, and data triple-play bundle
- Provides an in-depth analysis of the current marketplace for IP–based VPNs
- Explores potential requirements for VoIP networks that coexist with the PSTN, as well as for new technologies that enhance VoIP networks and the PSTN, allowing carriers to include both circuit and packet switching when migrating their networks
- Presents various approaches to managing the PSTN circuit-switched networks and the additional challenges imposed by VoIP networks
- Offers technical guidelines, based on real-world experience, for the development of IP networks
- Examines the distributed, programmable softswitch as a possible next stage in telephony evolution
- Discusses present and potential future operations processes for voice trunking and explores the deployment of packet technology for voice trunking applications
- Examines next-generation softswitching technologies, including IDT gateways and Class-5 switches, and how they can help service providers and their vendor partners to develop new revenue streams and to simplify the integration of new capabilities in the network
- Explores the development of location-based services, outlining current issues and challenges such as ensuring the accuracy of mobile positioning, roaming and billing, interoperability between operators, and privacy
- Discusses emerging service and support models for converged communications applications and defines current best practices
- Examines the adoption of national long-distance and SIP–based enhanced voice services by incumbent carriers
- Provides a high-level overview of SIP, describing the services that SIP provides and highlighting the initiatives currently under way to stimulate SIP's growth
- Highlights the types of media processing control that can be accomplished using SIP, the various control mechanisms that are available, and suitable applications for each mechanism
- Outlines the implication of CALEA for next-generation network architecture and discusses models for CALEA–compliant, next-generation network design
- Describes in detail how next-generation transport systems will allow much higher quality VoIP
- Discusses the use of traffic-management platforms to ensure that the quality of VoIP over WANs is acceptable to end users
- Reviews VoIP operational management requirements and strategies for enabling innovative services, meeting customers' service-quality expectations, and reducing operational costs
- Highlights viable IP management solutions that can be used to meet customer demands and fulfill customer targets
- Defines the concepts of quality of service and class of service as concerns IP network adoption and analyzes the distinctions between the two
- Explores how mass VoIP consumption could increase the risk for widespread security violations in corporate voice networks and steps that could be taken to prevent this
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