SAE and the Evolved Packet Core

Chapter 5 Services in EPS

While GSM was revolutionizing communications and taking mobile telephony to the masses, the World Wide Web was having a similar effect on the Internet. The tremendous popularity of the Internet and its value to end-users in providing relevant applications and information is driving a demand for mobile Internet. While a detailed discussion of the types of services that Evolved Packet Core (EPC) will be used for is beyond the scope of this book, this chapter attempts to provide a brief overview of the services that the mobile broadband revolution will enable for end-users. In particular, we cover the realization of voice services in an all-IP environment; for while the Internet services will provide a large number ...