Identification and Management of Distributed Data

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Evolution of the Cellular Telephony Networks

Over the last few years the telecoms industry has seen unparalleled growth in fixed-mobile converged services and networks. Fixed-mobile convergence presents the integration of wireline and wireless technologies and services to create a single telecommunications network environment. It promises to overcome some of the physical barriers that now prevent telecom service providers from reaching all of their potential customers with all types of services.

Out of the wireless standards consortium called the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) comes a slow-growing and complicated collection of carrier network functions and processes that collectively are referred to as the Internet Protocol ...