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Converged services could slash telecoms bills
News Telecoms watcher Analysys predicts the cheaper bills will be heralded by the advent of converged services, as businesses begin to route more of their voice traffic over Wi-Fi rather than cellular connections, helping them avoid fixed-to-mobile...
[March 9, 2007, 17:19]
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]
Migrating to Converged Networks and IP Telephony Applications: Implications for Management Tools and Managed Services
White Papers Telephony technology is migrating from a dedicated and somewhat closed (proprietary) system and network environment to the more open environment of a converged IP network model. Telephony, within this new model, runs as an IP network application...
[December 1, 2005, 0:00]
15 Steps to Maximize the Value From Converged Services
White Papers The convergence of voice, video, images, text, and data is growing in importance and popularity. The impending pervasiveness of applications and communication utilizing convergence will ultimately consume vast quantities of bandwidth and impact the...
[December 7, 2006, 0:00]
Delivering Converged Quad-Play Services With IPTV and IMS
White Papers As service providers combine interactive video with voice, data and mobility services to form quad-play bundles, will their subscribers be watching IP television (IPTV) or engaging in a new multimedia experience?
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Optimus Selects NeuStar to Bring Converged Instant Messaging Services to Portugal
White Papers Optimus also has invested in both NeuStar's Interconnect Platform (ICP) in order to interconnect to other mobile IM services across Portugal, and NeuStar's Presence Platform (PSP) to provide powerful presence capabilities across the Optimus network.
[April 16, 2009, 1:22]
Delivering Converged Entertainment and Communication Services With IPTV and VoIP Multimedia for Regional Carriers
White Papers As regional service providers combine interactive video with voice and data services to form triple-play bundles, will their subscribers be watching IP television (IPTV) or engaging in a new multimedia experience?
[September 15, 2007, 1:01]
Develop Customer Experience Leadership Through Transformed Customer Service Operations
White Papers Customer experience leadership is the next battlefield for Communications Service Providers (CSP) considering converged services. To be successful, organizations must integrate knowledge scattered among disparate functional and operational units...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
O2 plays down takeover talk
News O2 has played down speculation that it may buy a UK ISP as part of a move towards offering converged telecoms services. Both those businesses have a fixed-mobile arm and offer converged services. Calling the market for such converged services...
[May 5, 2006, 13:10]
Vodafone pushes its convergence capabilities
News Elaine Roberts, Vodafone UK's head of enterprise marketing, conceded on Wednesday that the launch was "very much focused on how we would position something we've been doing for three years already", but pointed out that customers had recently been...
[July 12, 2006, 17:30]
Telcos ready to spend on converged networks
News As such, they should be receiving plenty of attention from service providers, who are now boosting their investments in converged networks. As revenues for legacy services such as leased lines dwindle, service providers will be looking to these...
[January 12, 2006, 9:05]
HP converges on the datacentre
News To accompany the Converged Infrastructure technology, HP introduced implementation, design and other consulting services. The suite, called HP Converged Infrastructure, consists of management systems for the virtualised datacentre — both hardware...
[November 4, 2009, 16:06]
IP Convergence: Beyond VoIP, Beyond Cost Savings
White Papers We will examine the process by which one can simplify migration to a Converged Services environment and will also take a detailed look at the business drivers and challenges associated with migrating to a converged network.
[November 24, 2005, 0:00]
The ACCESS Linux Platform and the Hiker Application Framework: Accelerating Mobile Linux Market Growth and Fostering the Mobile Linux Ecosystem
White Papers Based on a standard Linux kernel and other open source components, the ACCESS Linux Platform includes all the middleware services required to build state-of-the-art mobile phones and converged devices.
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Nokia Siemens to acquire Apertio
News Apertio, which has 237 employees and numbers O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone among its customers, provides network infrastructure software aimed at enabling mobile, fixed and converged telecommunications operators to improve access to customer...
[January 4, 2008, 7:31]
Make sure convergence doesn't verge on the con
Leader When you look at your converged services contract, ask yourself — if this supplier starts to fall down on the mobile service, what options do I have? Just three scenarios where a converged contract may fail the hindsight test.
[March 20, 2006, 16:50]
Nortel Network Case Study: New York State Unified Court System
White Papers The New York State Unified Court System wanted to implement a true converged network that would drive operational cost savings, but and more importantly allow them to leverage a series of new services that would help enhance the productivity of...
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
Intel Virtualization Technology (VT) in Converged Application Platforms: Enabling Improved Utilization, Change Management, and Cost Reduction Through Hardware Assisted Virtualization
White Papers This paper illustrates how Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) can enhance Converged Application Platforms (CAP) by creating a secure, reliable, and consolidated environment to host voice, data, and video services, all in a single...
[February 24, 2007, 0:00]
Broadband talks the talk
News It turns out that US consumers are already quite happy to use broadband-based voice services, whereas UK residential customers haven't been flocking to converged solutions yet, although there are products on the market -- even from BT -- though...
[April 14, 2004, 11:50]
Orange: We're not a mobile operator
News Claiming it was the "first time an operator like [Orange] can go to business customers and say 'we really are a converged operator'", Ellis denied that Orange was stepping outside of its core competencies as a telco - an allegation that has been...
[June 14, 2006, 16:50]
