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. 

This paper is meant to help operators embrace a new strategy for differentiating and competing successfully in a market characterized by flux. 

Check out this brief analyst report to learn how a comprehensive up-the-stack approach supports today's mission-critical enterprise networks and provides reliable, rapid response times for network-centric business practices and applications on a 24/7 basis. 

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. 

In August 2008, Qualcomm commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the benefits that North American businesses have experienced as a result of providing notebook users with mobile broadband connectivity. In this paper you'll hear what IT and telecom/network decision-makers had to say. 

Selling in today's economy is tough. And simply doing more of the same is not the way to survive, much less thrive, in today's economy. There are important dos and don'ts in times like these. This eBook is your industry-specific roadmap out of the economic slump. 

This paper is aimed at helping senior management address its product ROI in a manner that can be directly applied to their everyday management practices. In this report, EMF presents a methodology for calculating the ROI for a development based on the direct cost of development, associative costs, extrinsic costs and a process for estimating risk. 

As data center infrastructures become increasingly complex, so do the IT processes--such as incident management and server provisioning--that keep infrastructure up and running. 

ECI's 1Net architecture helps service providers converge core Ethernet and DWDM networks for increased service flexibility while lowering operating and capital expenses. ECI's converged network not only addresses the needs of operators, but also sets a new standard for network efficiency and service quality. Read this whitepaper to find out more. 

Network providers must re-examine how they can speed up innovation and time to market by working with trusted partners and developer communities. But energizing such an ecosystem takes careful planning. This podcast discusses the lessons learned in the market for working well with application developers, and best practices for network providers. 

This paper examines issues that are driving industry interest in services access and onboarding; factors that impact successful implementation; key business model considerations and how they impact the business, technical, operational, and partnership dimensions; and steps that Network Operators can take to ensure they maximize benifits. 

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?