Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IEC
Published: April 2006
Product Code: R329-122Description The International Engineering Consortium's Annual Review of Communications, Volume 58 is an indispensable reference publication for telecommunication and information-industry professionals. Each year the Consortium brings together into one unique resource the most current thinking and practical experience of industry professionals around the world on a variety of topics facing the information industry. This 700+ page reference tool is a must for executives, managers, engineers, analysts, and educators in all sectors of today's changing information industry.
This latest edition of the Annual Review contains updates of current technologies through 2005 and is intended to keep readers informed of the most recent industry developments. The Annual Review encompasses the newest innovations from all corners of the globe and focuses on significant evolutions in information technology. Brought together in one volume are discussions of current market trends and leading business strategies; broadband access technologies, network architectures, and emerging services and applications; multimedia and IP communications technologies and services; packet networking; wireless communications and mobility; network management; and operations and quality control.
The Year's Critical Topics in Review
Industry professionals at all levels turn to the Annual Review for the latest information on issues impacting the communications industry. Detailed technology assessments, case studies, and deployment reports; business strategy reviews; regulatory updates; policy recommendations; market and service forecasts; revenue projections; and trend analyses are all part of the Annual Review. In addition, the Review includes background papers designed to help professionals educate themselves on current technology developments. Use this extensive, wide-ranging resource to make sure that you stay abreast of the most recent trends in the information industry.
More Than Fifty Years of Publication
The first edition of the Annual Review of Communications was published in May 1945. Since that time, the Annual Review has evolved each year along with the information industry to become a key resource for professionals at every level of organizational responsibility. Because it presents the very best insights, perspectives, and experiences of industry leaders on an annual basis, the Annual Review is considered to be one of the most useful resources for corporate libraries, training programs, and individual study. Volume 58 of the Annual Review contains an exclusive section of reports authored by senior executive officers of leading information-industry corporations and organizations. Use these executive perspectives to gain an invaluable edge in planning your company's future.
Features
- Offers up-to-date information on a range of key topics, all in one volume
- Discusses the hard-won experiences of industry players during the past year
- Evaluates the status of critical industry technologies and applications
- Forecasts how and where markets will develop for various services
- Provides insight on successful business practices and strategies
- Examines the change drivers and key trends in critical telecom markets
- Shares the perspectives of top industry executives on important issues facing the industry
- Includes an extensive index and acronym guide
Table of Contents
- Section I: Executive Perspectives
- The Role of BPO in the MVNO Marketplace
- Outsourcing Communications Management: An Adaptive Technology Strategy
- Recognizing User Perception in the Design of Telecommunications Networks
- The Untold Telecom Story: How the Industry Lost its Grip on ROCE (and How to Get It Back)
- Security Policy Compliance Management
- Learning to Be Lean
- Fiber-to-the-Home: Competition or Opportunity?
- EV-DO: Controlling Challenges and Creating Revenue Opportunities with Tiered Services
- Enabling Networks for Next-Generation Broadband Applications
- Ethernet and the Promise of the Triple Play
- What Hath God Wrought? - Peering into Our Future
- Management in the Technical Environment
- Security Equals Quality: The Future of Software
- The ACCESS Precept: Road Map to Outsourcing Success
- Security and Privacy with IPv6
- A Real-Time Intrusion-Prevention System for Commercial Enterprise Databases and File Systems
- The Financial Impact of Attack Traffic on Broadband Networks
- Wireless Voice over IP
- The Elements of Effective Internal Network Security
- Toward Intelligent Real-Time Web Services
- Road Map to Quadruple Play
- The Three Phases of Connectivity: Networking's New Frontier
- The Eminent Challenges for Incumbent Telcos on the Move toward Next-Generation Networks
- Broadband Teledensity: The New Paradigm for Economic Growth
- The Reality of DSL Anywhere
- Application Delivery Systems
- Network Inventory Redefined
- Toward the Emerging Ubiquitous Networks Society
- Section II: Business Strategies and Market Trends
- Ringing in a New Era of Growth for Wireline Telecom
- Strategic Tools for Innovation and Their Impact on the Long-Term Success of Modern Corporations
- VoIP: Forcing Changes in the Telecom Market and Its Regulation
- Navigating the Harsh Realities of Broadband Wireless Network Economics
- VoIP: The New Voice of the Lightwave
- Delivering VoIP and Advanced IP Services Profitably
- Building Trust in Unpredictable Systems: The Case for Resilience
- Successfully Bringing Wireless Innovations to Market
- Strategic Management in the Telecommunications Industry
- Digital Convergence: Where Are We Headed?
- Understanding E-Democracy and E-Government through MAPS: Management, Applications, Policy, Services
- The Battle for Broadband
- Section III: Broadband Access Technologies, Network Architectures, and Services
- On the Channel Characteristics of Overhead Medium-Voltage Power Lines for Broadband Communications
- Cable Multiservice Networks Converge around Carrier-Grade Optical Ethernet
- Broadband over Power Lines Case Study
- Enterprise Server Networks for On-Demand Computing Environments
- Key Technologies of Intelligent Optical Network Survivability
- The Digital Communications Grid
- Circuit Establishment in an All-Optical Backbone Network
- Optimizing the Broadband Aggregation Network for Triple-Play Services
- Broadband in Germany
- The Olympic Games: The Way toward the Internet
- Residential Services Evolution and the Impact on Communications Networks
- Bandwidth Profiles for Ethernet Services
- The Future of DSL: Success… or Failure?
- Soliton Theory in Optical Communications
- Section IV: IP Communications and Packet Networking
- Embedded Real-Time Voice Quality Analysis System
- Mediation Solutions for VoIP Environments
- Voice over Internet Protocol Voice Quality of Service
- Breaking the Continuum
- IP Telephony Security Based on SIP and RTP
- Distributed Architecture vsCentralized Architecture for IP VoD
- Wideband Voice Coding: Opportunities and Implementation Challenges
- IMS Architecture for NGN: Steering the Complexity
- Security Challenges for CALEA in Voice over Packet Networks
- A Comprehensive Study of Price and Performance of Video over Next-Generation Optical Access Networks
- Section V: Wireless Communications and Mobility
- CDMA: An Evolutionary Technology
- Multihop Mobile Wireless Internet Access: The Combined Use of Gateway Mobility and Mobile IP's Simultaneous Binding Capability
- Upwardly Mobile
- Wireless Ad Hoc Environmental Sensor Networks: Protocols and Setups
- Wireless Planning in Health Care
- Software-Defined Radio
- Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks with Reconfigurable Smart Nodes
- OFDM and GSM Protocol Optimization on a Software-Defined Radio Parallel Processing Architecture
- A Technology-Enabled Framework for Dynamic Allocation of the Radio-Frequency Spectrum
- An Introduction to UMTS and the Implications on OSS
- An Introduction to UWB
- Performance Evaluation of Wireless Application Protocol for Reliable Connection-Oriented Services
- Handoff Management in Wireless Data Networks Using Topography-Aware Mobility Prediction
- Satellites for Internet Communication
- Section VI: Operations, Network Management, and Quality Control
- QoS Management in Multiservice Packet Networks
- End-to-End Service Monitoring through Active Call Testing
- Toward End-to-End Security
- Network Technologies and Applications
- Billing: Beyond Feeds and Speeds
- Maintaining Normal Communication Operations by Reducing Denial of Service Effects by Worms and Viruses: A Case Study
- Advances in Network Emulation
- Internet Tomography in 4G System Architecture
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Security
- Interactive and Multilingual Health-Care Network Model Development
- The Design of a Dynamic Emergency Response Management Information System (DERMIS)
- Information Management: The Key to Compliance
- Predicting Internet End-to-End Delay: A Statistical Study
- A Practical Approach for OSS Development
- Dynamic Steganography Provides Additional Data Security for Network-Based Transactions
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