The IP revolution and potential gains for ISP/mobile/fixed telephony operators in the liberalization of telecommunications

Author

Vergados, Dimitrios ; Drakoulis, Dimitris ; Vayias, E. ; Soldatos, John ; Mitrou, Nicholas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

210

Lastpage

218

Abstract

The evolution of a new, “open” communications environment is now coming together harmoniously to deliver new communications services, characterised by mobility and advanced multimedia capabilities. The particular case addressed in this paper involves in a complex yet realistic scenario, telecom operators of fixed network, mobile telecommunications operator and Internet service providers (ISP). As a strategic movement towards IP technology both for access and backbone networks, this paper proposes an interworking scenario scheme between the ISP IP network and the mobile network. Finally, the main problems and issues are also identified and analyzed, originating from the planned network scenario

Keywords

Internet telephony; land mobile radio; telecommunication network planning; IP network; IP technology; ISP; Internet service providers; access networks; backbone network; fixed network; interworking scenario; mobile telecommunications operator; mobility; multimedia; planned network; telecom operators; Computer science; Delay; Electronic mail; IP networks; Internet telephony; Mobile communication; Protocols; Spine; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Multiservice Networks, 2000. ECUMN 2000. 1st European Conference on

Conference_Location

Colmar

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6419-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECUMN.2000.880744

Filename

880744