September 2013
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
13h 58m
English
The advent of Broadband developments with wireline optical access and optical 4G/LTE access enable much higher bandwidths to end-users, quickly becoming key drivers for new service developments and provide opportunity for SP innovation and differentiation in the marketplace. But proliferation of new high-bandwidth services and expectation of the same services being delivered over wireline and wireless access pose significant challenges to the present mode of operation for many SPs, due to increasing network and operation complexity, and resulting high costs. The desire to address these challenges becomes the main driver for network and systems convergence and evolution to a new network ...