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SMBs: New Challenges for VoIP
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Selling computer or communication technology to global enterprises bears little similarity to selling to SMBs. The presence of an information technology (IT) department at enterprises homogenizes the interface they have with outside technology vendors and service providers. The headway VoIP has made into the SMB marketplace and the pace at which adoption will continue will depend to some degree on how effectively and efficiently the benefits of VoIP can be translated into a unique value proposition suited to each particular small business.
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The Time is Here for Fiber-based Communications
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During the past several years, it has become clear that fiber-based communications driven by high-bandwidth Ethernet-based transport is the way of the future. As the adoption of Ethernet technology continues to rise, it is important to address the historical barriers to using fiber, including the lack of interoperability between carriers, the absence of fiber connectivity in the last mile, and the difficulty associated with bridging fiber and copper infrastructures.
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Critical Networking Technologies for Telco Business Model Evolution
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For telecommunications service providers, the world is changing at an expeditious pace. With proliferating competition and the ascendance of the Web, the services and telecom business models on which service providers once thrived now warrant serious rethinking. Fortunately, their network infrastructure remains a key differentiator even in today’s demanding and hypercompetitive marketplace, and can be leveraged to pursue a number of different business models that add value over and above the bitpipe-based models that have prevailed to date.
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The New Managed Services -- Outsourcing that Accelerates your Business
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There are a number of reasons why the high performance enterprise would consider managed services -- the vast majority of which point to resource allocation. In today’s unsure business environment, organizations simply cannot afford to get mired in anything that does not directly and almost instantly contribute to the bottom line. The result is that enterprises are increasingly outsourcing IT wherever it is feasible and economically possible to do so in order to achieve economies of scale. There is no better place to leverage external expertise while lowering CapEx and OpEx costs than to go with a Managed Service Provider that addresses both business and IT needs.
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The SMB VoIP Market Accelerates: Hosted vs. Premise
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Worldwide SMB IP telephony spending will exceed $4.5 billion during 2008, according to some estimates, suggesting a 2003-2008 compound annual growth rate of 41.3%. What's driving the growth? Here's a look at some fundamentals of both hosted and premise-based SMB VoIP solutions.
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Boosting Link Reliability for Telco Triple Play
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Crosstalk is perhaps one of the major factors impairing performance of VDSL2 networks in always-on, triple play deployments. Severe crosstalk noise resulting from the on/off switching of DSL lines can cause link drops or acute performance degradation, which results in service disruptions. To alleviate this problem, service providers need an intelligent and automated technology that will allow them to ensure link integrity and dynamically adapt to optimum data rates in the presence of sudden, and large noise changes without interruption of the service.
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Securing IMS Networks
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The Home Subscriber Server (HSS) is an important new system in the IMS environment. It can be thought of as the modern day Home Location Register (HLR), providing a comprehensive view into all customer information and data so that a unified communications experience can be delivered to users.
However, the HSS as a monolithic database represents a potential single point of failure and a highly attractive target for both internal and external attacks.
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