There are two camps of service providers who make money off of the residential Internet users today. Camp one is made up of the Googles, Yahoos, and AOLs who are often referred to as “over the top” or WEB 2.0 service providers. This camp doesn’t need IMS, or at least they haven’t shown much interest in IMS. On the other...
Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications. Providing an in-depth, one-stop reference for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the $1.2 trillion telecommunications industry,...
With the rapid adoption of Voice over IP (VoIP), many telephony and data network technicians,
engineers, and designers are now working to become proficient in VoIP.
Professional certifications, such as the CCNP Voice certification, offer validation of an
employee’s or a consultant’s competency in specific technical...
Many large to mid-size enterprise and private networks are examining the benefits of MPLS. The biggest benefit of migrating to MPLS is the savings that it promises through convergence and additional services. MPLS offers the ability to construct a scalable network that can handle data, voice, and video conferencing. The cry from CTOs around the...
In a dynamic computing environment, such as the Grid, resource management plays a crucial role for making distributed resources available on-demand to anyone from anywhere at any time without undermining the resource autonomy; this becomes an art when dealing with heterogeneous resources distributed under multiple trust domains spanning across...
Design, configure, and manage MPLS TE to optimize network performance.
Almost every busy network backbone has some congested links while others remain underutilized. That's because shortest-path routing protocols send traffic down the path that is shortest without considering other network parameters,...
The migration of the most common Internet services to a mobile environment has long been an evolving demand of both business and consumer markets. The ability to be connected to the Internet while on the go and to benefit from using such applications as e-mail, instant messaging, audio and video streaming, Web browsing, and...
The optical networking technology that suffered in the post - dot - com crash
several years ago has since recovered and is once again poised for rapid growth
due to the exhaustion of available bandwidth. Today, photonics networks transport
Internet data over large distances in long - haul and metropolitan networks.
Improvements in...
Software-defined networking (SDN) technologies powered by the OpenFlow protocol provide viable options to address the bandwidth needs of next-generation computer networks. And, since many large corporations already produce network devices that support the OpenFlow standard, there are opportunities for those who can manage complex and...
