The present information age is enabled by telecommunications and information technology and the continued convergence of their services, technologies and business models. Within telecommunications, the historic separations between fixed networks, mobile telephone networks and data communications are diminishing. Similarly, information technology and enterprise communications show convergence with telecommunications. These synergies are captured in the concept of Next Generation Networks that result from evolution to new technologies, enabling new services and applications.
Network Convergence creates a framework to aid the understanding of Next Generation Networks, their potential for supporting new and enhanced applications and their relationships with legacy networks. The book identifies and explains the concepts and principles underlying standards for networks, services and applications.
This essential reference guide will prove invaluable to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academics and researchers. It will also be of interest to professionals working for telecommunications network operators, equipment vendors, telecoms regulators, and engineers who wish to further their knowledge of next generation networks.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Setting the Context for Evolution and Convergence of Networks
Chapter 02 - A Framework for Examining Next Generation Networks
Chapter 03 - Software Methodologies for Converged Networks and Services
Chapter 04 - An NGN: the Managed Voice over IP Network
Chapter 05 - Integrated Enterprise ICT Systems
Chapter 06 - Legacies and Lessons: Broadband ISDN, TINA and TIPHON
Chapter 07 - Important NGNs: Third Generation Mobile Communication Systems
Chapter 08 - Opening the Network using Application Programming Interfaces
Chapter 09 - Operations Support Systems
Chapter 10 - Migration from Legacy to Next Generation Networks
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