Developing IP-Based Services (eBook)

Solutions for Service Providers and Vendors

Monique Morrow, Kateel Vijayananda (Autoren)

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2002 | 1. Auflage
313 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-050413-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Offering new services is a great way for your organization to drive traffic and boost revenue, and what better foundation for these services than IP? This much is a given. The difficulty is uniting business and technical perspectives in a cohesive development and deployment process.

Meeting this challenge is the focus of Developing IP-Based Services. The only book of its kind devoted exclusively to IP-based services, it provides a blueprint for all the engineers, managers, and analysts who must come together to build these services and bring them online.
Inside, you'll find just the right balance of business and technical coverage, introduced with a lucid discussion of the principles of service development and wrapped up with three case studies illustrating effective provisioning in today's marketplace. Read the chapters relating to your role, and you'll play it more successfully. Have your team read the entire book, and you'll achieve a level of collaboration and shared understanding that will quickly accrue to the bottom line.

* Valuable insight from authors with extensive service provisioning and product development experience.

* Written for business and technical readers at a wide range of companies, including established telecoms, ISPs, ASPs, Clecs, bandwidth brokers, and vendors.

* Probes the business issues that will make or break your effort, including shortening the development cycle and choosing a competitive model.

* Provides the technical coverage required for successful implementation, according to the terms of the business model you choose.

* Focuses on the IP technologies that offer your service and its users the greatest value, including MPLS, Voice Over IP, and multicast.

* Helps you meet tough challenges relating to security and Quality of Service.

* Concludes with case studies illustrating successful service development and deployment in three companies.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Developing IP-Based Services: Solution for Service Providers and Vendors 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 12
Foreword 8
Preface 18
Chapter 1. Introduction 24
1.1 Why IP? 25
1.2 History—Setting the Stage for Service Providers 26
1.3 Regulatory Events That Opened Competition 26
1.4 Potential Service Providers—Categories 27
1.5 Services 28
1.6 Customer Requirements and Service Provider and Vendor Goals 29
1.7 Chapter Review 35
Chapter 2. Building the Case for IP-Based Services 36
2.1 Nuts and Bolts of Service Development 37
2.2 Service Development Process 38
2.3 Service Development Dynamics 44
2.4 Problems with the Service Development Process 48
2.5 Role of IP in the Service Development Process 50
2.6 IP-Based Services 52
2.7.Greenfield and Incumbent 57
2.8.Chapter Review 57
Chapter 3. Greenfield Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges 58
3.1 Definition of Greenfield 58
3.2 Business Aspects 63
3.3 Service Creation Model 72
3.4 Service Examples 72
3.5 Service Packaging and Pricing 77
3.6 What Are the Challenges? 81
3.7 Who Is the Competition? 82
3.8 Being Competitive in Terms of IP-Based Technology 82
3.9 Chapter Review 83
Chapter 4. Incumbent Service Providers: Opportunities and Challenges 84
4.1 Definition of Incumbent 85
4.2 Business Aspects 85
4.3 Service Creation Model 88
4.4 Service Examples 89
4.5 Service Packaging and Pricing 91
4.6 Legacy Infrastructure 93
4.7 What Are the Challenges? 95
4.8 Chapter Review 96
Chapter 5. IP as a Building Block: Enabling Multiservices 98
5.1 Multiservices 98
5.2.Architectural Overview 103
5.3.Technologies 105
5.4.Transport Technology Overview 119
5.5 Service Creation 145
5.6 Chapter Review 158
Chapter 6. IP-Based Service Implementation and Network Management 160
6.1 Simple Network Management Protocol 162
6.2 IP-Based Service Implementation—OSS 170
6.3 Provisioning—What Are the Issues? 172
6.4 Network Management—What Are the Issues? 178
6.5.OSS Architecture 185
6.6.Chapter Review 189
Chapter 7. IP-Based Services: Advanced Topics 192
7.1 Quality of Service 193
7.2 Voice-over-IP 203
7.3 IP Security 212
7.4 IPv6 222
7.5 Local Multipoint Distribution Service 231
7.6 Optical Networking 233
7.7 Chapter Review 243
Chapter 8. Case Studies 244
8.1 Conceptual Case Study—Greenfield 245
8.2 Conceptual Case Study—Incumbent 264
8.3 Real-Life Case Study 277
8.4 Chapter Review 299
Closing Remarks: Remaining Competitive with IP 302
Acronyms 308
Bibliography 316
Index 320
About the Authors 336

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.9.2002
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• ISBN-10: 0-08-050413-2 / 0080504132
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-050413-1 / 9780080504131