Book description
Technical, Commerical and Regulatory Challenges of QoS provides a comprehensive examination of Internet QoS theory, standards, vendor implementation and network deployment from the practitioner's point of view, including extensive discussion of related economic and regulatory issues. Written in a technology-light way so that a variety of professionals and researchers in the information and networking industries can easily grasp the material. Includes case studies based on real-world experiences from industry.
The author starts by discussing the economic, regulatory and technical challenges of the existing QoS model. Key coverage includes defining a clear business model for selling and buying QoS in relation to current and future direction of government regulation and QoS interoperability (or lack thereof) between carriers and networking devices. The author then demonstrates how to improve the current QoS model to create a clear selling point, less regulation uncertainty, and higher chance of deployment success. This includes discussion of QoS re-packaging to end-users; economic and regulatory benefits of the re-packaging; and the overall benefits of an improved technical approach. Finally, the author discusses the future evolution of QoS from an Internet philosophy perspective and lets the reader draw the conclusions.
This book is the first QoS book to provide in depth coverage on the commercial and regulatory aspects of QoS, in addition to the technical aspect. From that, readers can grasp the commercial and regulatory issues of QoS and their implications on the overall QoS business model. This book is also the first QoS book to provide case studies of real world QoS deployments, contributed by the people who did the actual deployments. From that, readers can grasp the practical issues of QoS in real world. This book is also the first QoS book to cover both wireline QoS and wireless QoS. Readers can grasp the QoS issues in the wireless world. The book was reviewed and endorsed by a long list of prominent industrial and academic figures.
- Discusses QoS technology in relation to economic and regulatory issues
- Includes case studies based on real-world examples from industry practitioners
- Provides unique insight into how to improve the current QoS model to create a clear selling point, less regulatory uncertainty, and higher chance of deployment success
Table of contents
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
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Part I. The Status Quo
- Chapter 2. What Is QoS?
- Chapter 3. Historic Evolution of QoS Solutions
- Chapter 4. Contemporary QoS Wisdom
- Chapter 5. QoS Reality
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Part II. The Challenges
- Chapter 6. Commercial Challenges
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Chapter 7. Regulatory Challenges
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The Net Neutrality Debate
- Arising of Net Neutrality
- The Interest Conflict between the “Hosts” and the “Parasites”
- The Net Neutrality Proponent's View
- The Opponent's View
- The General Public and the Network Industry's View
- Clarifying Some Common Misconceptions about Net Neutrality
- The Gist of Net Neutrality
- Can Structural Separation Be an Alternative to Net Neutrality?
- The Consequences of the Net Neutrality Debate
- The Impact of Net Neutrality on QoS
- Regulatory Environment in Other Countries
- Summary
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The Net Neutrality Debate
- Chapter 8. Technical Challenges
- Chapter 9. The Lessons
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Part III. The Next Step
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Chapter 10. The New Business Model
- The New Baseline
- How the proposed Model Deals with the Commercial, Regulatory, and Technical Challenges
- The Possible Concerns
- The Historic Pricing Trend of Communications Services
- The Correlation between Pricing Scheme and Usage Growth
- How Comparable Are Postal and Telephone Services to Internet Service?
- Why the Proposed Model Is Good for the Industry
- The Early Evidence
- The Possible Customizations
- Summary
- Chapter 11. The New Technical Approach
- Chapter 12. Case Studies
- Chapter 13. QoS in Wireless Networks
- Chapter 14. Conclusion
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Chapter 10. The New Business Model
- Appendix A. List of Acronyms
- Appendix B. Sample Peering Contract
- Appendix C. U.S. Senate Bill S215, Internet Freedom Preservation Act
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2008
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780080920313
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