Business Strategies for the Next-Generation Network - 9780367453312

CRC Press

Business Strategies for the Next-Generation NetworkAuthor(s): Nigel Seel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9780367453312, 978-0367453312\nSynopsis\nCarriers and service providers have united around the concept of the Next-Generation Network (NGN). Although leveraging a broad basket of Internet technologies, the NGN is not being planned as the next-generation Internet. In its intention and architecture, it is more accurately described as Broadband-ISDN release [url]\n\nThe NGN transition is hard for both practitioners and observers to understand because it weaves together a number of distinct strands: \n\nthe development of a new architecture and technology base including advanced IT automation systems\nthe development of a portfolio of new wave products and services which exploits the power of the new network\nthe design of a new kind of organization which can utilize the higher levels of automation in the NGN, and rr