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Mobile backhaul is a crucial part of the mobile network that links the Radio Access Network (RAN) and the mobile core network. Typically it consists of access and aggregation portions of a mobile network. Mobile backhaul traffic is expected to explode with the growing consumer interest in smartphones, dongles, and netbooks that demand high data bandwidth. Increasing numbers of mobile subscribers, irrespective of economic conditions, is another major contributing factor.

Global service providers have elected TR-069 as the management protocol of choice - offering rich management capabilities for a wide range of devices including DSL, cable, and Ethernet residential gateways (RG), fiber optical network terminals (ONTs), IPTV settop boxes (STBs), network attached storage (NAS), powerline adapters, femtocells, IP phones, and more.

Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is a mature packet technology that is already widely deployed and plays an important role in service providers' packet-based networks to deliver a diverse, rich set of services and applications. Initially MPLS was mainly deployed in core networks but since then has been extended into many aggregation networks. There is now a clear demand in the market to further extend MPLS into access networks to enhance operations thereby enabling a unified end-to-end technology.

Fixed/Mobile Convergence, Broadband Convergence, network transformation, interworking are terminologies frequently used by the telecommunication industry. The purpose of this Broadband Forum marketing document is to shed light on this highly popular topic.

In the last few years, traditional triple-play services have been commoditized and this resulted in significant revenue reduction for Service Providers triggering a search to replace the lost revenue. The Connected Home space is quickly becoming a major opportunity and turning into the focal point of Service Providers' interest to offer additional revenue-generating value-added services to consumers.

Recognizing that more than 60% of the world's broadband deployments are via Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL), a group of the specifications in this release deal specifically with how to engineer DSL for enhanced speed, stability and service delivery. These specifications make up what is referred to as the DSL Quality Management (DQM) Suite which describes techniques using DSL line performance, status and test data, as well as other data as inputs to measure throughput and diagnose line functions. The specifications then prescribe potential corrective actions to alleviate problems or improve performance.

This Excel4apps White Paper provides guidance to Oracle ERP users on the impact on General Ledger reporting when their existing application is upgraded to Release 12, as well as solutions available to address the gaps in meeting user requirements in the new environment.