| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 401 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Telecoms explained |
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Telecoms explained.
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| Contents |
Business strategies -- Expanding telco businesses -- Triple play applications -- Driving factors of triple play -- Telcos strategies -- Infrastructures -- Triple play market -- IP telephony -- Coding of voice signals -- Network performance parameters -- Opinion quality rating -- Objective quality assessment -- Market segments -- Audiovisual services -- Digital television -- Questioning the IPTV business models -- Regulatory framework -- Architectural design -- Television and video services and applications -- Formats and protocols -- How a codec works -- Windows Media and VC-1 -- Service provision -- Service assurance -- Signalling -- The real-time transport protocol -- The real-time control protocol -- The session intitiation protocol -- IP multicasting -- IP multicast groups and their management -- Multicast routing -- QoS in packet networks -- QoS basics -- End-to-end performance parameters -- Marking -- Scheduling -- Congestion avoidance -- Congestion control and recovery -- QoS architectures -- QoS in ATM networks -- QoS in IP networks -- Broadband access -- Broadband services over copper -- The passive optical network -- Ethernet in the first mile -- Service provisioning -- Quadruple play -- Cellular communications overview -- Wireless communications overview -- The IP multimedia subsystem -- Carrier-class ethernet -- Ethernet as a MAN/WAN service -- End-to-end ethernet -- Limitations of bridged networks -- Multiprotocol label switching -- Migration -- Next-generation SDH/SONET -- Streaming forces -- Legacy and next-generation SDH -- The next-generation challenge -- Core transport services -- Generic framing procedure -- Concatenation -- Link capacity adjustment scheme |
| Summary |
"Triple Play" is a combination of Internet access, voice communication (telephony), and entertainment services such as IP television and video on demand . The erosion of the traditional voice service, together with the ever-increasing competition between companies, is pushing the telecommunications industry towards a major shift in its business models. Customers want more services in a more flexible way. Today, this shift can only be carried out by offering converged services built around the Internet Protocol (IP). Triple Play, a bundle of voice, video, and data services for residential custo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Computer network protocols.
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Computer networks -- Standards.
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Convergence (Telecommunication)
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Internet industry.
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Internet telephony.
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Internet television.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caballero, José Manuel.
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| ISBN |
0470754389 |
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0470754397 (electronic bk.) |
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1282343254 |
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9780470754382 |
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9780470754399 (electronic bk.) |
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9781282343252 |
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(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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