In this presentation, security expert Ed Moyle answers PCI DSS questions that pose the greatest challenge to enterprises, outlines recent and upcoming clarifications from the PCI Security Standards Council regarding often misinterpreted requirements, and discusses strategies used in the field to help reduce the complexity. 

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. 

Network service providers dealing with massive bandwidth demand are struggling to evolve their networks while keeping costs under control. Expenditures must be reduced and revenue per transported bit increased. Read this strategic white paper to learn more about a more value driven approach to network management. 

This Trend Advisory guide features a series of articles on Unified Communications. Each piece covers a different aspect of the subject. Learn how convergence communications is changing everything in the business world as more and more companies are taking voice and video to the data network. 

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. 

Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. However, energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast covers market trends driving network providers to change their relationships with application developers. 

Check out this comprehensive eBook to discover the ins and outs of IP telephony system selection, deployment, and management. 

Leading telecommunications companies are finding ways to integrate data into business processes and also automate decisions with on-demand business analytics. This paper can provide you with background on Intelligent Mail®, with an emphasis on the 21 practical ways you can leverage mailstream intelligence to improve your business today. 

Read this white paper to learn how the Network Integrator is responsible for managing subprojects within the context of multivendor agreements with the appropriate third parties and service providers. 

Orange Switzerland turns to Alcatel-Lucent’s Network Outsourcing solution to increase operational efficiency of its network management, ensure and increase network quality, and focus on its core business with impressive results. Read this case study to learn more about the advantages of outsourcing network management. 

As demand for mobile multimedia services increase and average revenue per user declines, mobile service providers must transform their networks to profitably support legacy voice and advanced packet-based services. This paper outlines the challenges associated with transforming the mobile transport network. 

Next generation services need to meet customer and carrier needs; network convergence is the technical goal, while IP transformation is the business goal. This guide addresses the challenge of planning for providers doing both at the same time and lays out a service delivery platform (SDP) and SOA roadmap to recreate the network architecture.