Networks: Internet, Telephony, Multimedia: Convergences and Complementarities

by Hardy, Daniel; Malleus, Guy; Mereur, Jean-Noel; Hardy, Daniel; Malleus, Guy; Mereur, Jean-Noel

• ISBN13: 9783540005599
• ISBN10: 3540005595
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This handbook delivers a complete and practice-oriented overview of the fundamentals of today's telecommunications networks and the future prospects for next generation networks (NGN). It deals not only with the technology and services intrinsic to networks, but also the regulatory, social, and business environments within which they must develop and function. The very clear and concise text, supplemented by many color illustrations and embedded into a functional four-color layout, make the handbook suitable for self-study as well as for quick reference. The intended audience includes professionals and students in electrical engineering, computer science, business, and economics. Even readers with a more general interest in high technology and the development of the information society can benefit from the easily accessible wealth of information. Many industrial experts contributed to this work, including many from Cisco and France Telecom.

Table of Contents

Publisher's note	v
Preface	vii
Foreword	ix
List of contributors	xi
Contents	xv
Part I CHANGES IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LANDSCAPE
The evolution of telecommunications regulation	1	(12)
The evolution of the telecommunications market	13	(66)
Challenges for tomorrow's networks	79	(16)
Part II KEY TECHNOLOGIES FOR TOMORROW'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
The rise of digitization	95	(30)
Optics, the key to the ultra high-speed networks	125	(56)
Radio access: the key to global mobility	181	(52)
Adaptation of existing wire access for digital	233	(14)
Packet mode, the key to multi-speed networks	247	(66)
Quality of service and IP traffic engineering	313	(16)
Software technology for telecommunications	329	(30)
Control of networks and services	359	(16)
Signalling protocols	375	(34)
Information Systems	409	(22)
Application protocols	431	(12)
Description languages	443	(16)
Security techniques	459	(14)
Part III NETWORKS AND SERVICES IN THE YEAR 2000
A fibre-optic synchronous multiservice communications network	473	(6)
The 64 kbps switched digital network	479	(24)
Data networks	503	(24)
The audiovisual networks	527	(14)
Mobile networks	541	(26)
Customer premises equipment and private networks	567	(26)
The beginnings of high-speed packet mode networks	593	(18)
Part IV NEW GENERATION NETWORKS: NGN
The foundations of NGN	611	(10)
NGN customer premises equipment	621	(10)
NGN: Defining a reference architecture	631	(34)
Information Systems and NGN	665	(14)
The new network economy	679	(12)
Towards the new generation networks	691	(20)
Appendix 1 General remarks on digital transmission systems	711	(6)
Appendix 2 General remarks on multiple access techniques	717	(4)
Afterword	721	(8)
List of abbreviations	729	(8)
Index	737	(4)
Contents	741