Turner / Magill / Marples Service Provision

Technologies for Next Generation Communications
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-02049-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 386 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Series in Communications Technology

This book provides the first overview of the service technologiesavailable to telecoms operators working in a post-convergenceworld. Previous books have focused either on computer networks oron telecoms networks. This is the first to bring the two togetherand provide a single reference source for information that iscurrently only to be found in disparate journals, toolspecifications and standards documents.
In order to provide such broad coverage of the topic in astructured and logical fashion, the book is divided into 3parts.
The first part looks at the underlying network support for servicesand aims to explain the technology that makes the user-visibleservices possible. This section covers multimedia networking, bothtraditional (legacy) and future (softswitch) call processing,intelligent networks, the Internet, and Wireless networks.
Part 2 deals with how these services may be analysed and managed.Chapters cover topics such as commercial issues, servicemanagement, quality of service, security, standards and APIs.
Part 3 concludes the book by looking ahead at evolving technologiesand more speculative possibilities, discussing the kinds ofservices that may be possible in the future and the technologiesthat will support them.
* Focuses is on how the technology supports the services, ratherthan on technology for its own sake
* Contributors drawn from both academia and industry (companiessuch as Marconi, BT, Telcordia, Cisco, Analysys) to give boththeoretical and real-world perspectives
* Unique singe-reference source for a wide range of materialcurrently found only in disparate papers, specs anddocumentation
* Covers brand new technologies such as JAIN, JTAPI, Parlay, IP,multimedia networking, active networks, WAP, wireless LANs,agent-based services, etc.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Kenneth J.

Magill, Evan H.

Marples, David J.