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CARRIER ETHERNET/MOBILE INTERNET - Entertainment on the move
Mobile operators must tackle the transition to next-generation Ethernet if they are to successfully meet consumer demands for new services, argues Vinay Rathore
ALL MOBILE TELEPHONY - Totally mobile
Francois Mazoudier argues that fixed-mobile convergence is not the be all and end all in the evolution of telecoms
MULTI SERVICE QOS - The last QOS hurdle
We've been hearing a great deal about ‘converged', ‘21st Century' and ‘next generation' networks, and what they will mean for business. But what does it all actually mean in terms of technology? Peter Thompson takes a look
COLUMN: TELECOM ECONOMICS - Next Generation Regulation?
Next generation access ("NGA") networks are slowly being rolled out in a range of European, American and Asia-Pacific countries. Even BT, that had until recently been reluctant to commit to NGA investments, announced a five year £1.5 billion
GLOBAL VPLS - Guaranteed performance
Could VPLS offer the answer to the seemingly inevitable future bandwidth crunch? Chris Werpy explores the options
DCME Bandwidth Optimization and Compression - The Best Kept Secret in Mobile Networking and Telephony
It's no secret that voice traffic is still expensive to carry in many regions of the world. And even though the related transmission costs are decreasing with the introduction of network entities such as 2G-3G media gateways, many
MOBILE INSTANT MESSAGING - The new communications channel
What do mobile operators do now that many of their services are reaching saturation point? How do they continue to develop new and innovative ways for people to communicate that are as universally embraced as voice and text? Allen Scott contends that Mobile Instant Messaging will become the third key
DELIVERING IMS - The great jigsaw puzzle challenge
IMS - the ultra next generation network architecture - was to become the great unifier for all our disparate access technologies and a cure-all needed to deal with vendor interoperability issues. If done the wrong way, however, it can create an overly complex, difficult-to-manage architecture. This realisation has put a
