Standards

Next-Generation VoIP Network Architecture
MultiService Forum

With network operators facing eventual equipment obsolescence in their existing narrowband public switched telephone networks (PSTNs), the…

SAP NetWeaver and Globalization: Meeting Local and Global Requirements
SAP

Rapid changes in international markets—and mounting pressures to reduce costs and improve quality—make globalization a key issue for most…

Quality of Service for Next-generation Voice Over IP Networks
MultiService Forum

In order to support the requirements of voice deployments, next-generation networks must be capable of supporting a service equivalent to the…

Bandwidth Management in Next-generation Packet Networks
MultiService Forum

Bandwidth managers can provide the basis of a large-scale solution for a quality of service (QoS) that can support public switched telephone…

Management for Next-generation Multi-service System Networks
MultiService Forum

The history of telecommunications management is rife with examples of good technology failing to meet business requirements. Historically,…

IMS Reconciliation White Paper
MultiService Forum

Widespread acceptance of the principles in the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is nearing a level…

Network Engineering to Support the Bandwidth Manager Architecture
MultiService Forum

Network-level behaviors can impact the determinism of call admission control decisions for a particular bandwidth management deployment.…

Testability in the NGN
MultiService Forum

End-to-end performance monitoring on signaling and bearer links, and on inter-networking between service and transport provider domains, are the…