Böcker i Informa Telecoms & Media-serien

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) uses services as baseline for developing architectures and applications, as networks are built specifically to satisfy service requirements. This book outlines the challenges of providing crossover services and architectures and protocols that enables convergence between circuit- and packet-switched networks.

Exploring the evolution of wireless, broadband, and the wireless broadband landscape, this book provides coverage of the technological advances and topologies that have made it all possible. It builds an understanding of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Technologies.

Describes the technologies and capabilities supporting next generation services, focusing particularly on multimedia interactive services, TV, and video-on-demand. This book looks at the IMS layer and how it interworks both downwards into the QoS-enabled IP transport layer and upwards to enable new kinds of applications.