Author:
Hens, Francisco J.
Imprint:Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2008.
Descriptionxiii, 401 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note: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 initiation 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
