Global Service Provider Strategies and Networking Alternatives

Global Service Provider Strategies and Networking Alternatives

This paper focuses on network planning strategies for the global communications carrier. It discusses strategic planning for the provision of new data and Internet services, and assesses alternative network designs and technologies to provide optimized solutions and service delivery. The discussion covers the regional, metropolitan and local, or last mile, networks and related access technologi...

Software-defined networking: the service provider perspective

Service Failures and Recovery Strategies from the Service Provider Perspective

Most of existing literature pertaining to service failures and recovery strategies, while aiming at helping service providers determine their best recovery strategies, focuses on how customers respond to service failures. The real determinants of the strategies for those providers per se are seldom dealt with. This study proposes a framework linking service failure types and recovery strategies...

Mobile Context Provider for Social Networking

The ability to infer user context based on a mobile device together with a set of external sensors opens up the way to new contextaware services and applications. In this paper, we describe a mobile context provider that makes use of sensors available in a smartphone as well as sensors externally connected via bluetooth. We describe the system architecture from sensor data acquisition to featur...

MPLS Architecture for Service Provider

MPLS is an emerging backbone technology for service providers, which is being deployed on a large scale in recent days. Using MPLS, service providers can deliver different types of services like TE, QoS and IP VPN along with adequate security according to the specific business demands, across either switched or routed networks. This paper deals with the current problems in service providers’ ne...