Provide Secure Unified Communications With Cisco IOS Firewall Session Initiation Protocol
White Papers Many organizations have discovered that unified communications - the convergence of data, voice, and video onto a single network infrastructure - can enhance employee productivity and mobility, while dramatically reducing communications costs.
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
Layered View of QoS Issues in IP-Based Mobile Wireless Networks
White Papers With the convergence of wireless communication and IP-based networking technologies, future IP-based wireless networks are expected to support real-time multimedia. IP services over wireless networks enhance the mobility and flexibility of...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
Using Master Reference Data Management to Unify Your Business
White Papers The semantic convergence approach to master reference data management can provide a fundamental, holistic view of the enterprise information asset that will ease the way for increasing the return on information investment.
[August 10, 2006, 1:00]
Work Smarter! Deliver Portal and Collaboration Solutions for smarter telecommunications
White Papers Digital Media convergence, Web 2.0 and social networking's growing influence are forcing Telecommunications companies to transform their service offerings. Watch this webcast to learn about IBM's asset-based telecommunications solutions that solve...
[October 27, 2009, 0:19]
On the Road to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: A Continuing Tradition of Excellence
White Papers As official convergence communications provider for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, Avaya is one of a handful of partners that have proven themselves able to rise any challenge and meet the uncompromising performance standards of the Federation...
[September 5, 2006, 0:00]
High Availability Solutions: Avaya Media Servers and Media Gateways With Avaya Communication Manager Software
White Papers With the convergence of voice and data applications running on common systems, the stakes grow higher. Companies are staking their success on reliable communications systems. A communications failure could bring an entire business to a halt, with...
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS): Restructuring an Industry
White Papers IP Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) technology and the convergence of fixed and mobile network service providers will make niche market service development, delivery and marketing faster and much less costly.
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
How Cisco IT Deployed Global Web Conferencing
White Papers The primary goals of this convergence included the following: Improve the voice and Web collaboration experience for all employees. Previously, voice and Web conferencing applications were separate functions.
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Cable & Wireless, Ericsson seal FMC deal
News Telecoms-kit company Ericsson has signed a five-year, £30m contract with telco Cable & Wireless to supply and manage a GSM mobile network that will let Cable & Wireless sell FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) services.
[September 15, 2008, 8:23]
Siemens launches mobile unified-comms suite
News The company, which is a joint venture between Siemens and the Gores Group private-equity firm, claims it is the first to offer a full range of interoperable unified-communications (UC) products including enterprise telephony, video, wireless and...
[October 14, 2008, 16:58]
Weather Company Enhances Security and Management With Operating System Upgrade
White Papers AWS Convergence Technologies provides weather information for use by consumers, schools, government agencies, and corporations. The company, an innovator in consumer and enterprise applications, recently began to upgrade its client computers to the...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
One Line on the bottom line
White Papers Telecommunications costs have never been easy to understand, predict or plan for - and as the business world rushes towards convergence, the picture is becoming even more complicated. This Vodafone white paper explores how new joined-up services...
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
Microsoft CTO lauds BlackBerry, iPod
Talkback All this talk about convergence completely overlooks the fact that some functions simply do not go together. Finally - someone who gets it. I love my iPod - it carries my music and my data, making it my constant companion when I travel for work.
[November 18, 2003, 9:08]
Mobile Health Systems: A Brief Overview
White Papers Rapid advances in information technology and telecommunications, and more specifically wireless and mobile communications, and their convergence (telematics) are leading to the emergence of a new type of information infrastructure that has the...
[March 16, 2009, 4:41]
Nokia handsets get free VoIP calling
News Ultimately the goal is to be able to switch calls between Wi-Fi and GSM networks mid-call, a technique called Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). Leeds-based telecoms provider Aql on Monday launched a service allowing Nokia E-Series users to make free...
[September 11, 2006, 12:05]
Thus adds mobility to fixed-line portfolio
News Thus has its own next-generation fixed network, so the new portfolio essentially uses that and Vodafone's mobile network to let customers roll out fixed-mobile convergence entirely through Thus. Telecommunications provider Thus launched its mobile...
[July 22, 2008, 13:03]
DeviceLock for Basel II Compliance
White Papers Basel II (The International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised Framework1), is the second of the Basel Accords and poses minimum capital requirements. In line with the framework, financial companies must assess...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
Data on 3G: an Introduction to the Third Generation
White Papers The telecommunications world is changing as the trends of media convergence, industry consolidation, Internet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies and mobile communications collide into one. Significant change will be bought about by this rapid...
[September 25, 2009, 3:04]
Converged IP/MPLS Backbone Networks for 2G and 3G Voice Services Integration
White Papers This paper describes how IP/MPLS technologies support the emerging VoIP infrastructure in mobile networks to facilitate the convergence of 2G and 3G mobile voice services, including the evolution of the VoIP network from the split architecture in...
[July 9, 2009, 3:05]
O2 takes the mobile network indoors
News O2 also sought to distance itself from the oft-talked about fixed-mobile convergence (FMC). Patchy indoor mobile coverage could be consigned to history by O2, which is evaluating two new ways of extending its mobile network.
[November 16, 2006, 11:50]



