As the following pages will demonstrate, the evidence is that improving Business Transaction Assurance presents a real bottom-line opportunity and is moving high up the business agenda. However, companies' current systems are not equipped with the necessary tools to manage and control such transactions. 

About a billion people worldwide do not have access to telecommunications services, mostly from lack of a power grid that can support network infrastructure. Traditional wireless networks for remote locations rely on costly generators that are hard on the environment. Read this whitepaper to learn about cost effective and eco-friendly alternatives. 

The USDA Rural Utilities Service and NTIA jointly announced the availability of funding and application requirements for the broadband initiatives contained in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. Read on to learn about the RUS grant program, its requirements, and how Motorola can work with you toward an RUS approved grant. 

As services shift to IP protocols and bandwidth demands grow, Wireline Telcos and Cable MSOs alike must evolve their infrastructures to become IP centric. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the two paths service providers are taking to get to this new infrastructure and how they both end up in the same place. 

Consumer spending patterns undergo significant changes during an economic downturn. This paper presents the results of a worldwide study to assess how the current recession is affecting consumer spending. This information can help operators recognize the areas of greatest revenue potential in the months ahead and adjust accordingly. 

Modern packet-based communications are sweeping away traditional telephony standards and changing the way businesses stay connected. SIP, the latest IP enabler to hit the market, is often portrayed as the key to implementing more sophisticated, flexible voice and unified communications. But is that a fact, or merely well-publicized fiction? 

This white paper discusses the role of user profile management. SPs’ efforts to manage, enrich, capitalize on, and provision user information across multiple databases are critical to fuel applications-led service initiatives. 

Learn how they used the nworks Management Pack (MP) to centralize monitoring of physical and VMware virtual infrastructures, reduce costs of implementing VMware monitoring, and give them the ability to receive performance metrics specific to the VMware virtual infrastructure. 

With the momentum of IP convergence and the movement toward an all digital world, professional communication systems combining telephony over IP, e-mail, instant messaging and audio/video conferencing services are sparking serious interest due to the benefits they offer. Read on to learn more. 

Only rock-solid planning will get you to next-generation network and services convergence, and this Telecom Insights guide walks you through the trends affecting the telecom services business and lays out a path to getting there. 

An April 2008 Forrester report predicts that the Enterprise Web 2.0 and social computing market will grow from $455M in 2007 to $4.6B in 2013. This paper summarizes: 1) Why Companies Are Pursuing Social Computing 2) What Enterprise Social Computing Really Is 3) How To Implement Social Computing Successfully 

This paper explores the concerns and process roadmap of supply chain executives in high-tech industries. 

Charles Bahr of Alcatel-Lucent Multimedia Solutions Marketing and Christophe Senot of Bell Labs demonstrate the technologies that can be combined to create a personalized content and advertising experience across any screen.