Network Technology white papers

Broadband Forum White Paper: Leveraging Standards for Next Generation Wholesale Access includes:

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.

The purpose of this White Paper is to outline the emerging Connected Home market and the value proposition of Broadband Forum for Service Providers and consumers.

DSL has provided for the delivery of broadband services since the mid-1990s. By the fourth quarter of 2010, the world had over 350 million DSL lines in service, accounting for over 65% of the total broadband access market.

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.

Having some baseline data at hand when you begin your video collaboration deployment will enable you to track your progress right from the start. This Cisco white paper looks at successfully incorporating a telepresence programme.

Research has found that 90% of frequent users say video collaboration technologies save them at least 2 hours of valuable work time a week.

As scale-up technologies makes way for scale-out, Fibre Channel makes way for Ethernet, and block structured data makes way for file, edge-to-core network traffic is rapidly becoming edge-to-edge. As such, network architectures are also adopting a scale-out approach, moving network intelligence to the edge.

Meru Networks' WLAN System makes wireless VoIP suitable for any environment. Patented technology overcomes a number of performance barriers to deliver unprecedented quality, scale, and usability for a converged voice and data network. Networks built with Meru WLAN products accomplish this with nothing more than industry standard Wi-Fi client devices.

This Brocade white paper provides a high level overview of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN PHY defined in the IEEE802.3ae standard. It explains how the 10GE WAN PHY interacts with SONET OC-192 networks.

Planning any IT technology upgrade is never as simple as sending out an RFP and wading through the responses. It takes careful upfront planning to do it right. And when the technology issue you're addressing happens to involve your enterprise communications system, trying to understand what's currently available since the last time you did an upgrade can be a project in itself.

The trick with voice over IP (VoIP) therefore is to reconfigure a network to accommodate IP-based technology and unified voice/data communications without compromising security — while at the same time guaranteeing voice quality.

For organizations in which networked interactions and information need to stay private — financial institutions, healthcare providers, insurance companies, government agencies, retail organizations, contact centers, et al — it's critical to plan and implement the highest levels of security available to protect voice and data communications.

Generating phone calls over the Internet really does work, and enterprise CIOs and IT chiefs are increasingly finding Internet Protocol (IP) technologies to their liking for business communications, namely IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP). This Interactive Intelligence white paper discusses how to successfully migrate from the traditional PBX to IP Telephony and VoIP.

Answering the call for Wireless VoIP: Wi-Fi adoption is soaring. And wireless VoIP is the most talked about application after data usage. However, questions have arisen about whether voice is a realistic application over 802.11 networks today. This Brocade/ FoundIt explains the numerous places where wireless VoIP can go to work, why most offerings fail to make it work, and how only Foundry Network's IronPoint Mobility Series puts the power of wireless VoIP to work at enterprise-scale.96105