TOP-ARTICLE Network Operation Efficiency Security
"1M – 10M – 100M – 1G"
Cost-optimized Design of Multiservice Access Networks
Andreas Melcher, Dr. Mathias Schweigel
The communications landscape of the present is characterized by a broad diversity of highly varied services, beginning with the classic voice service and continuing via various types of data services on to triple play offers. The consequent increase in bandwidth requirements all the way to the end customer has led to new technical framework conditions for the access network. Fixed network operators must make greater use of active technology in this part of the network, while mobile network operators are focusing on raising the density of their base stations and expanding the connections among existing stations. At the same time, solutions which meet all of the technical framework conditions and can also be realized at low cost must be found, yet taking into account the specific properties of the existing networks. Scalability and flexibility with respect to the adaptation to new services are further important basic conditions.
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ARCHIVE Network Operation Efficiency Security
Dr. Holger Schwarz, Manfred Schmitz
Green Gold
How energy savings are given due consideration in outsourcing agreements
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Dr. Wolfgang Knospe, Marc Alexander Conrad
Feel the Customers’ Pulse!
Information from the network assures mobile networks services appropriate to the customers
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