Historically, Telecom Networks were a Mixture of TDM/Circuit Switched and Packet/Datagram based and used techniques such as TDMoIP and IPoTDM for internetwork communication. Voice and Data Networks were separate. NGN was envisioned as a pathway towards a converged ALL-IP network capable to cater to Voice, Video and Data services. Around 2005, newer services such as SAN’s, NAS’s, CDN’s, WSNs, Lo...

Technological and economical development has forced companies in competitive markets, to change their strategic focus, as a result of which the Customer oriented organization is on the rise. In order to stay ahead of the competition, companies are increasingly turning to their customers as a means of securing their future competitive edge. CRM has become the mantra for success and developing cl...

Entanglement swapping at telecom wavelengths is at the heart of quantum networking in optical fiber infrastructures. Although entanglement swapping has been demonstrated experimentally so far using various types of entangled photon sources both in near-infrared and telecom wavelength regions, the rate of swapping operation has been too low to be applied to practical quantum protocols, due to li...

Meriem Belguidoum LIRE Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University Mentouri Constantine, Algeria TELECOM Bretagne, Computer science department Brest, France [email protected] Faiza Belala LIRE Laboratory, Computer Science Department, University Mentouri Constantine, Algeria [email protected] Fateh Latreche LIRE Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Universit...

In this paper we outline an approach to discovering and maintaining telecom Service Opportunities between distributed communicating peers. The approach is based on exchanging and comparing Service Goals. When we use the term service in the context of this article, we consistently refer to communication control services, as opposed to application services in its widest sense, or to transport ser...

As part of a large cross sectional epidemiological study of respiratory disease in coalminers, the respiratory health of miners in one colliery in south Wales has been compared with the health of nearby telecommunication (telecom) workers. The studies were carried out in 1981 and 1982. The answers to questionnaires on respiratory symptoms and results of lung spirometry indicate a much greater f...

Intention of the study was to quantitatively analyze the factors based on which telecom service providers can formulate strategy to satisfy customers to get an edge over the competitors. And we will see how Business. Process Management and Re-engineering might play the role of a weapon to Indian Telco service providers. The elements of the business processes of the Telecom domain, which affect ...

Under what circumstances should a competition authority allow a merger that creates a monopoly? As competition policy is predicated on the need to protect consumers from market power, the presumption might be that such a merger should never be allowed. However, there are circumstances in which a merger to monopoly can be the best available option. The European Commission’s recent clearance (sub...

In this paper we prove a sharp affine Lp Sobolev inequality for functions on R. The new inequality is significantly stronger than (and directly implies) the classical sharp Lp Sobolev inequality of Aubin [A2] and Talenti [T], even though it uses only the vector space structure and standard Lebesgue measure on R. For the new inequality, no inner product, norm, or conformal structure is needed at...