- SS7 creates management challenges.
New architecture produces more complex networks. With the addition of emerging technologies, such as Internet protocol (IP) transport; the integration of multiple protocols in a single network; the rapidly changing and currently unstable nature of IP-based signaling; and the constant introduction of new telephony services for both wireline and wireless ......
- New Frontier for Digital Home: Home, Mobile Network Convergence
While much new technology for the connected home in recent years was intended to connect consumer entertainment devices to the home network, the next frontier is the merger of the digital home network with mobile devices, according to Oyster Bay, N.Y.-based market research firm ABI Research. Today consumer product vendors, ......
- Technology '04-Play: It's OCAP Middleware
This being the last "translation" of the year, it seems useful to revisit something that looks like a vigorous technology for 2004. The something is OCAP, which is short for "OpenCable Applications Platform." It re-entered the industrial lexicon (technologists have been at it since 1997) at the recent Western Show, ......
- Straight Out of Centralcasting
Thanks to a combination of the pressure to keep costs down and a more widespread fiber-optic network, cable-system operators such as Time Warner Cable (TWC) are centralizing news operations through a single hub. Known as centralcasting, this allows sister news organizations to share graphics and video content over long distances ......
- Multiroom DVR Slated For Cable Test In Philly Market
Comcast, Samsung Electronics and Ucentric Systems announced plans for a joint field trial of a multiroom, Multi-TV Digital Video Recording (DVR) system. The digital set-top DVRs are manufactured by Samsung and will incorporate Ucentric's DVR and home media networking software to deliver a host of new services, including a Multi-TV ......
- Is It Worth It?
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is this year's undisputed champion in the industry's hype stakes. With it, its proponents claim, network operators will make huge savings while also finally delivering on the promises of 3G. But critics charge new developments in VoIP will soon render it irrelevant At this year's conference ......
- IMS 101: What You Need To Know Now
HEADNOTE PUBLIC NETWORKS HEADNOTE Can the IP Multimedia Subsystem enable new services, converge wireless and wireline networks-and keep service providers firmly in the driver's seat? Out of the wireless standards consortium called 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) comes a slow-growing and complicated collection of carrier network functions and processes that ......