Business Strategies for the Next-Generation NetworkCarriers and service providers have united around the concept of the Next-Generation Network (NGN). Although leveraging a broad basket of Internet technologies, the NGN is not being planned as the next-generation Internet. In its intention and architecture, it is more accurately described as Broadband-ISDN release 2.0. The NGN transition |
Contents
Introduction | |
About the Author | |
TECHNOLOGY | |
The Strange Death of Broadband ISDN | |
The NextGeneration Network and | |
The NextGeneration Network and | |
The NextGeneration Network and IT Systems | |
Choosing the Right People | |
A Transformation Program | |
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES | |
Worrying about Skype | |
Spectrum Auctions | |
The Trial of Rete Populi | |
Machines Who Talk | |
BUSINESS STRATEGIES | |
TRANSFORMATION | |
Bureaucracy and Treacle | |
Telecoms Market Structure | |
NGN Strategies for Incumbents | |
NGN Strategies for Alternative Network Operators | |
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