The paper analyses the current state-of-the-art of mobile agents technology wrt security, seen from the standpoint of a public network operator (PNO). It is argued that the current state-of-the-art does not offer sufficient security for large-scale, commercial applications of mobile agents within the PNO’s networks. To support this thesis, the most important security issues in this context are ...

Some decades ago the increasing importance of the telephony service pushed most telecom‐ munications companies (TELCOs) to deploy optical fibre networks. In order to guarantee appropriate service availability, these networks were designed in such a way that several independent paths were available between each pair of nodes, and in order to optimize these large capital investments several model...

Requirement engineering is first phase of software development processes and it is most important phase for every software development model. In requirement engineering phase we can gather the requirements from user and use this requirement to software development and produce software product that satisfy the user needs. In other words, we have to see all requirements during the software's life...

In the midst of the digital revolution, the telecommunications industry is undergoing major changes. One of the changes affecting telcos is the increase in data sources from which to get customer feedback – big data, social media. Where this used to be fully controlled by companies through their call centres, websites and shops, today much feedback is expressed in social media, blogs, news site...

Telstra and the Telecom Corporation of New Zealand (TCNZ) are examined against the backdrop of deregulation, corporatisation and privatisation of telcommunications companies (TelCos) world-wide. This changing context has seen TelCos face new opportunities and threats amid changed product markets. The deregulation of the New Zealand and Australian telecommunications markets has been accompanied ...

Website www.icra.in The Indian telecom industry has witnessed significant growth in subscriber base over the last decade, with increasing network coverage and a competition-induced decline in tariffs playing facilitators. The growth story and the potential have also served to attract newer players in the industry, with the result that the intensity of competition has kept increasing, forcing th...

The externalization of network control and maintenance tasks, enabled by the emerging Networking as a Service (NaaS) paradigm, is an appealing opportunity for large Telcos to expand their network management offering to SMEs. In this paper we propose an architecture for network control and management capable of efficiently supporting the NaaS paradigm. Our methodology is based on a set of orthog...