Open service platforms like the OSGi-platform offer a standard, scalable way for service providers to remotely deploy their services inside many residential networks. However, the lack of control by WAN service providers on the home environment together with too complex end-user policy configuration hinder widespread e-deployment of services into the home. Several architectures have been presen...

This paper proposes a framework for session-level SLA (Service Level Agreement) and network-level SLA management to provide QoS-oriented application services over DiffServ/MPLS networks. DiffServ and MPLS technologies enhance the capability of QoS guarantee on IP network, and application service provider can provide QoS-oriented application services to their customers based on the transport net...

ISSN: 1526-5161 (Print) 1536-0075 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uajb20 Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals Carson Strong To cite this article: Carson Strong (2010) Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals, The American Journal of Bioethics, 10:1, 13-15 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...

Nepalese online shopping companies have not been maintaining the proper warehouse facilities but getting goods from third party, even for delivery service. Hence, if service provider makes an error in due process of delivering goods, indirectly, image and goodwill company seem to be hampered. The paper found assurance personnel is seen as very poor per opinion shoppers while there was no issue ...

The IEEE 802.1 Provider Backbone Bridges (PBBs) specification defines an architecture and bridge protocols for interconnection of multiple Provider Bridged Networks (PBNs). Provider backbone bridging was defined by IEEE as a connectionless technology based on multipoint VLAN tunnels. PBB can be used to attain better scalability than Provider Bridges (PBs) in terms of the number of customer Medi...

The use of private health care providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is widespread and is the subject of considerable debate. We review here a new model of private primary care provision emerging in South Africa, in which commercial companies provide standardized primary care services at relatively low cost. The structure and operation of one such company is described, and featu...

Before the deregulation of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services by the FCC in 2005, phone companies were required to share their DSL bandwidth with independent DSL providers. However, despite the large number of independent providers that entered the market, phone companies accounted for 95.3% of all DSL subscribers in 2005. A common explanation for this is based on supply-side factors such a...

OBJECTIVES To determine the need for HIV/AIDS service provision in the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM), especially in municipal areas. METHODS The Foundation for Professional Development initiated the Compass Project. Using a questionnaire, data were collected during May - June 2010 from organisations providing HIV/AIDS services in the CTMM (organisational information and typ...

In an external architecture for testing communication protocols, the service provider is an abstraction of the stack of protocols and the public data network interconnecting the lower tester with the implementation under test. In this paper, the effects of a public data network are studied (i.e. the service provider) when testing a protocol implementation's conformity to its speci"cation. The t...