{"product_id":"converged-multimedia-networks-isbn-9780470025536","title":"Converged Multimedia Networks","description":"This book focuses largely on enabling technologies for network convergence.  A principal aim is to show where parallel functions exist in fixed and mobile voice network architectures and to explain how these functions will be combined. The authors describe the components of a future converged architecture and consider the following key aspects: QoS Requirements, Proposed Solution Architectures, Protocol and Interface options, Underlying Network Issues and Security issues.  The book also compares and describes initiatives from several standards bodies working to simplify to a clean architecture and a common set of protocols. The impact on a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, the preferred method of transport for the core network, will be considered in detail.  \u003cb\u003eForeword.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Motivation for Network Convergence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 The Core Network.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 Legacy Service Requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 New Service Requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Architectures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Moving to SIP.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Growing Revenue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Network Operators – Dealing with Convergence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.9 Enabling Technologies for Converged Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Call Control in the NGN.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 NGN Network Architectures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 The Operation of Call Control.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Call Processing in the Legacy PSTN.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Call Processing in an NGN Call Agent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 The Basic Call State Machine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Call Signalling in the NGN and the Role of SIP.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 The SDP Protocol.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 Media Transport Using RTP and RTCP.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 Addressing Issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.10 Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Securing the Network and the Role of Session Border Gateways.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 General Principles of Security and the NGN.  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 The Problem of Secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 IPSec.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Session Border Controllers and Session Border Gateways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Protecting the PSTN Call Control Platforms in the NGN.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The NGN and the PSTN.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Circuits and What they Carry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Signalling and Supervision.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 The Birth of the Call Agent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Media Gateways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 A Look at Media Gateway Control Protocols.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Evolution of Mobile Networks and Wireless LANs.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 1G and 2G Mobile Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Development of 3G.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Release 99 UMTS Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 Release 4 UMTS Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Introduction to IMS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.10 GPRS Access to IMS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11 Broadband Data Wireless Access.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.12 Wireless LAN Interworking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.13 Mobile TV and Video.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.14 Related Work in other Standards Bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Value-added Services.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Service Creation and Delivery Technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Service Orchestration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Service Orchestration Examples.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Service Delivery Platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Core Network Architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 The Convergence Layer: Multiprotocol Label Switching.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Virtual Private Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Guaranteeing Quality of Service in the NGN.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Defining QoS.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 QoS in IP Networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Traffic Engineering in the MPLS Core.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Video Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.6 Business VPN Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.7 Extending QoS for VPN Services across Multiple Providers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.8 QoS and the PSTN.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.9 QoS Architectures for PSTN Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.10 The MSF Architecture for Bandwidth Management.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.11 Protecting the Network from Application Layer Overload.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.12 Summary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book fills a gap in multimedia literature...well written...\" (\u003ci\u003eIET Communication Engineer\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2006)  \u003cb\u003eDr. Juliet Bates\u003c\/b\u003e is a Principal Consultant within the Professional Services Division of Alcatel Networks, providing design advice on the engineering and traffic management of Broadband Networks. Juliet's specialist areas include fixed and mobile voice access for transmission over ATM, IP and MPLS.   \u003cp\u003eJuliet has been MSF Technical Committee Vice Chair since April 2004.Chris Gallon is a Senior Network Architect at Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe, working in areas including end-to-end network design for triple play services, UK PSTN interconnect protocols, DSL and Fibre Access Solutions, PSTN evolution and Bandwidth Management.  He has been MSF Protocol and Control Working Group Chair since February 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLearn how to construct the converged networks of the future!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew technologies are re-writing the business cases and cost models upon which telephony has been based for years. The fast \"always on\" Broadband Internet is a key driver, pushing forward and enabling the delivery of multimedia applications in all types of networks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eService Providers want to reduce costs by converging new IP Services, existing data services and traditional telephony services onto the same core network, placing expectations on network performance. \u003ci\u003eConverged Multimedia Networks\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on enabling the synergistic combination of voice, data and video on to one network and the new challenges this will present in telecommunications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConverged Multimedia Networks\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates how to deploy converged networks to support mobile telephony, fixed telephony, data, and broadband multimedia services.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDescribes how call control enables peer-to-peer voice and multimedia communication.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOverviews the security solutions available to the network operators.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the architectural and protocol developments needed to permit the NGN to interoperate with the PSTN, reviewing transmission, and signalling in depth.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces the IMS architecture, for all types of access.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrates how value Added Services are delivered and describes how the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has launched a new breed of native SIP applications.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplains Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), showing its capabilities in the core and describes how IP traffic engineering can support end user QoS guarantees.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses how differentiated QoS can be implemented allowing multiple service offerings, avoiding over-provisioning, and maximising the operator's return on investment.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis text will be an invaluable resource for network planners, and network architects in the telecommunications industry. Advanced students and network engineers working for telecommunication operators and vendors will also find this to be an excellent technical guide to the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988988805349,"sku":"NP9780470025536","price":149.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470025536.jpg?v=1761782331","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/converged-multimedia-networks-isbn-9780470025536","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}