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Table of Contents:
Preface xi About the Author xiii References and Acknowledgements xv Glossary xxi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Book in Brief 1 1.2 A Dynamic Situation 10 1.3 Success Factors for the Growth of Mobile Services 11 1.4 Comment on Terminology 12 2 End-User Needs and Demands 15 2.1 Objectives 15 2.2 The Role of the Unpredictable (?) End User 18 2.3 User Analysis and Segmentation 19 2.4 Basic Needs Model 33 2.5 Mapping of Needs and Services 35 2.6 The Human End User as a Traffic Generator and Receiver 41 2.7 The Future Most Common End User: A Machine 43 2.8 What are the Service Drivers? 45 2.9 User Perception 46 2.10 Summary 47 3 Networks and Technologies 49 3.1 Objectives 49 3.2 What is a Network? 51 3.3 What is a Vertical Network? 54 3.4 The Convergence (or Collision?) 57 3.5 What is a Horizontal Network? 63 3.6 Fundamental Plans 65 3.7 A Techno-Economic View of the Convergence 70 3.8 Adaptation of the Basic Triangle and FPs to the Converged Multi-Service Network 71 3.9 The Connectivity Layer 75 3.10 The Control Layer 78 3.11 The Service Layer 78 3.12 The Distributed Network Dimension 83 3.13 The Processing Dimension 87 3.14 Key Enablers 89 3.15 General Enabler Development 93 3.16 Enabler Overview 93 4 Telecom Business 99 4.1 Objectives 99 4.2 The Telemanagement Forum 101 4.3 Adopting a Telecom Business Perspective 105 4.4 Telecom Enterprise Strategy: Roles for Positioning 108 4.5 Tools for Profitability Calculations and Business Cases 122 4.6 Revenue 130 4.7 Cost Efficiency 135 5 Services 147 5.1 Introduction 147 5.2 The Service Plan 154 5.3 A Common Segmentation of Services for Mobile Internet 157 5.4 Service Segmentation for Planning 159 5.5 Value-added Services 165 5.6 Economy of Service by Means of Caching 166 5.7 Economy of Service by Means of Saving Bandwidth 166 5.8 Bandwidth Requirements 170 5.9 Security 172 5.10 Future Service Development 172 5.11 Pricing: Charging in the New Telecom World 174 5.12 The Service Plan versus the New Architecture 177 5.13 The Core Network and the Service Plan 177 5.14 The Access Network and the Service Plan 180 5.15 Telecom Management and the Service Plan 183 6 Security 185 6.1 Objectives 185 6.2 The Goals of the User and Actor. Terminology 186 6.3 The Problem 187 6.4 Non-Availability for Non-Security Reasons 194 6.5 Connecting Security Terms into Telecommunication 194 6.6 Main Ways to Implement Security 196 6.7 Integrity and Confidentiality by Access Control – Authentication 202 6.8 Integrity by Access Control – Authorization in Enterprises 205 6.9 Integrity by Access Control – Firewalls 205 6.10 Confidentiality: Encryption and Key Management 207 6.11 Confidentiality by Tunnelling 210 6.12 Confidentiality and Integrity by IPsec 212 6.13 Confidentiality and Integrity for Mail by S/MIME 214 6.14 Applications and Solutions 215 6.15 Summary with IPsec and FP Focus 219 7 Quality of Service 221 7.1 Objective 221 7.2 Introduction 221 7.3 Perception of QoS 224 7.4 Threats to QoS 229 7.5 QoS Enablers 237 7.6 QoS at the Application Level 243 7.7 Implementation of QoS in UMTS 244 8 Service Implementation 247 8.1 Objectives 247 8.2 Chapter Structure 249 8.3 Target Network 250 8.4 Development Tracks 254 8.5 Introduction to Packet Design 256 8.6 The Role of Fundamental Technical Plans in Packet Design 258 8.7 Top-Down Approach to Packet Design 259 8.8 Specific Fundamental Technical Plans 266 8.9 Convergence Between Fundamental Technical Plans 275 8.10 Traffic Cases 280 9 Service Network 285 9.1 Objectives 285 9.2 Connection to Preceding Chapters 285 9.3 What is a Service Network? 286 9.4 Service Network Domain and Principles 288 9.5 Terminology 290 9.6 The Architecture of Service Networks 290 9.7 The Needs of the User Domain 295 9.8 The Needs of the Service Network Owner 296 9.9 Service Network Implementation 299 9.10 The (IP) Service Network Support Entities 300 9.11 Examples of Service Implementation 301 10 Terminals 305 10.1 What is a Terminal? 305 10.2 Business Aspects 308 10.3 History 309 10.4 Terminals for Mobile Networks 309 10.5 PDA Development 311 10.6 Terminal Convergence 312 10.7 The Changing Role of Terminating Devices 312 10.8 What is a Customer Premises Network? 313 10.9 Some Enablers 315 10.10 Terminal Functionality – Example 317 10.11 The Future 318 11 Edge Nodes 319 11.1 Introduction 319 11.2 Access and Backbone Networks 321 11.3 MGW Interfaces 323 11.4 Media Gateway Tasks 324 11.5 Summary 329 12 Packet Backbone 331 12.1 Objectives 331 12.2 Service Plan versus Packet Backbone 332 12.3 Capacity Development 334 12.4 Control Functions in the Packet Backbone 336 12.5 The Distributed Dimension 339 12.6 Traffic 339 12.7 ATM Solutions 340 12.8 IP Routing 342 12.9 IP QoS 344 12.10 Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) 347 12.11 Multi-Layer Control 348 13 Access Network 351 13.1 Objectives 351 13.2 Introduction 351 13.3 What is an Access Network? 352 13.4 Access System Fragmentation 357 13.5 Unification 358 13.6 The Distributed Dimension 359 13.7 The Layered Dimension 361 13.8 Fundamental Plans in Access Networks 363 13.9 Mobility 364 13.10 Access Technologies in Mobile Networks 364 13.11 System Evolution 366 13.12 Fixed Systems 374 13.13 Fibre-Based Systems 376 13.14 Ethernet 376 13.15 Combined ADSL over Copper and Ethernet Over Fibre Solution 377 13.16 Cable Modem 378 13.17 WLAN 379 13.18 Satellite Technologies 381 13.19 High Speed Fixed Radio 382 14 Control Network 385 14.1 Introduction 385 14.2 The Environment of the Control Network 387 14.3 Fundamental Plans in the Control Network 388 14.4 A Simple Target Control Network Signalling 390 14.5 Circuit Mode Domain 394 14.6 Packet Mode Domain 397 14.7 IMS Domain = IP Multimedia Subsystem 399 14.8 HLR/HSS for all Previous Domains 402 14.9 The Domain of (Voice and) Signalling Over IP 402 14.10 Common Support Functions 406 15 Interconnection 409 15.1 Objectives 409 15.2 Introduction 410 15.3 Interconnection in Tele-Centric Fixed Voice Networks 413 15.4 Definition of an Actor Interface Reference Point 414 15.5 Service Level Agreements 415 15.6 Service Interworking 416 15.7 QoS Interworking 417 15.8 PDP Context Activation for Connection to a Data Network 418 15.9 Security Interworking 419 15.10 Signalling Interworking 420 15.11 Routing 421 15.12 Mobility Management 423 15.13 Charging and Accounting 424 15.14 Possible Interworking UMTS–WLAN 426 16 Telecom Management – Operations 429 16.1 Introduction 429 16.2 The Management System 431 16.3 Basic Process Part 438 16.4 The TMN Functional Areas 441 16.5 Service Management 443 16.6 TM Operations from a Roce Perspective 445 16.7 Customer Care and Data Warehousing 448 16.8 Security Management 451 16.9 QoS Management 452 16.10 Terminal Management 453 16.11 Access Network Management 454 16.12 Management of Layered and Serial Interworking 454 16.13 Conclusions 457 Appendix 1 Web Services and a Service-Oriented Architecture 459 Appendix 2 Financial Calculations 463 Appendix 3 Development Tracks 473 Appendix 4 Dimensioning Media Gateways and Associated Telephony Servers 481 Index 499

About the Author :
Anders Olsson has worked for many years as a network designer in Sweden (Televert, nowadays TeliaSonera), Columbia (Telecom) and Tanzania (TP & TC), and in 1991 was appointed senior expert in Network oriented training at Ericsson.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780470868522
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Building a Successful Telecom Business
  • ISBN-10: 047086852X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 542


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