This comprehensive new resource presents applications of MEF’s (Metro Ethernet Forum) Carrier Ethernet architecture and provides insight into building end-to-end systems with third network services like MPLS-TP, VPLS, and PBT. This book includes new use cases and explores the new MEF/CEN specifications, services, and applications. While providing a look into lifecycle service orchestration (LSO), virtualization, and cloud series, this book highlights the pros and cons of these technologies for service providers and enterprise network owners. Pseudowires architectures, control planes, mutisegment architecture, and multisegment pseudowire setup mechanisms are explained. Ethernet protection is explored, including Automatic Protection Switching (APS) entities, linear protection, ring protection, and link aggregations. This book covers Carrier Ethernet Traffic Management, Carrier Ethernet Operation Administration Management and Performance (OAMP), Circuit Emulation Services (CES), and Carrier Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LIM). Full chapters on Provider Bridges (PB), Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB), Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), and information modeling are also included in this invaluable resource.

This book describes the networks, applications, services of 2030 and beyond, their management. Novel end-to-end network and services architectures using cloud, wired, wireless, and space technologies to support future applications and services are presented. The book ties key concepts together such as cloud, space networking, network slicing, AI/ML, edge computing, burst switching, and optical computing in achieving end-to-end automated future services. Expected future applications, services, and network and data center architectures to support these applications and services in the year 2030 and beyond, along with security, routing, QoS, and management architecture and capabilities are described. The book is written by recognized global experts in the field from both industry and academia.

This comprehensive new resource presents applications of MEF's (Metro Ethernet Forum) Carrier Ethernet architecture and provides insight into building end-to-end systems with third network services like MPLS-TP, VPLS, and PBT. This book includes new use cases and explores the new MEF/CEN specifications, services, and applications. While providing a look into lifecycle service orchestration (LSO), virtualization, and cloud series, this book highlights the pros and cons of these technologies for service providers and enterprise network owners. Pseudowires architectures, control planes, mutisegment architecture, and multisegment pseudowire setup mechanisms are explained. Ethernet protection is explored, including Automatic Protection Switching (APS) entities, linear protection, ring protection, and link aggregations. This book covers Carrier Ethernet Traffic Management, Carrier Ethernet Operation Administration Management and Performance (OAMP), Circuit Emulation Services (CES), and Carrier Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LIM). Full chapters on Provider Bridges (PB), Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB), Provider Backbone Transport (PBT), and information modeling are also included in this invaluable resource. Instructors Resources: The authors have made available a collection of resources for Instructors only. For access to the materials, please fax your request with your school/University email address on your departmental letterhead to 781-769-6334.

Designing Networks and Services for the Cloud Delivering business-grade cloud applications and services A rapid, easy-to-understand approach to delivering a secure, resilient, easy-to-manage, SLA-driven cloud experience Designing Networks and Services for the Cloud helps you understand the design and architecture of networks and network services that enable the delivery of business-grade cloud services. Drawing on more than 40 years of experience in network and cloud design, validation, and deployment, the authors demonstrate how networks spanning from the Enterprise branch/HQ and the service provider Next-Generation Networks (NGN) to the data center fabric play a key role in addressing the primary inhibitors to cloud adoption–security, performance, and management complexity. The authors first review how virtualized infrastructure lays the foundation for the delivery of cloud services before delving into a primer on clouds, including the management of cloud services. Next, they explore key factors that inhibit enterprises from moving their core workloads to the cloud, and how advanced networks and network services can help businesses migrate to the cloud with confidence. You’ll find an in-depth look at data center networks, including virtualization-aware networks, virtual network services, and service overlays. The elements of security in this virtual, fluid environment are discussed, along with techniques for optimizing and accelerating the service delivery. The book dives deeply into cloud-aware service provider NGNs and their role in flexibly connecting distributed cloud resources, ensuring the security of provider and tenant resources, and enabling the optimal placement of cloud services. The role of Enterprise networks as a critical control point for securely and cost-effectively connecting to high-performance cloud services is explored in detail before various parts of the network finally come together in the definition and delivery of end-to-end cloud SLAs. At the end of the journey, you preview the exciting future of clouds and network services, along with the major upcoming trends. If you are a technical professional or manager who must design, implement, or operate cloud or NGN solutions in enterprise or service-provider environments, this guide will be an indispensable resource. * Understand how virtualized data-center infrastructure lays the groundwork for cloud-based services * Move from distributed virtualization to “IT-as-a-service” via automated self-service portals * Classify cloud services and deployment models, and understand the actors in the cloud ecosystem * Review the elements, requirements, challenges, and opportunities associated with network services in the cloud * Optimize data centers via network segmentation, virtualization-aware networks, virtual network services, and service overlays * Systematically secure cloud services * Optimize service and application performance * Plan and implement NGN infrastructure to support and accelerate cloud services * Successfully connect enterprises to the cloud * Define and deliver on end-to-end cloud SLAs * Preview the future of cloud and network services

This CIGRE green book begins by addressing the specification and provision of communication services in the context of operational applications for electrical power utilities, before subsequently providing guidelines on the deployment or transformation of networks to deliver these specific communication services. Lastly, it demonstrates how these networks and their services can be monitored, operated, and maintained to ensure that the requisite high level of service quality is consistently achieved.

Here's a cutting-edge book that offers you a comprehensive understanding of 3G multimedia network services and related architectures. This practical resource guides you in developing the services, charges and customer use data that will allow maximum profitability for your company. Covering both mobile and fixed networks, the book thoroughly explains 3G network standards, implementation architectures, charging principles, user profiles, and QoS and security considerations.

Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.

An unprecedented look into the present and future of next generation networks, services, and management in the telecommunications industry The telecommunications industry has advanced in rapid, significant, and unpredictable ways into the twenty-first century. Next Generation Telecommunications Networks, Services, and Management guides the global industry and academia even further by providing an in-depth look at current and developing trends, as well as examining the complex issues of developing, introducing, and managing cutting-edge telecommunications technologies. This is an orchestrated set of original chapters written expressly for this book by topic experts from around the globe. It addresses next generation technologies and architectures, with the focus on networks, services, and management. Key topics include: Opportunities and challenges of next generation telecommunications networks, services, and management Tri/Quad Play and IP-based networks and services Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, and Security (FCAPS) requirements Convergence and an important convergence vehicle, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Next generation operations and network management architecture Ad hoc wireless and sensor networks and their management Next generation operations and network management standards from a strategic perspective A defining look at the future in this field This book will serve as a contemporary reference for the growing global community of telecommunication and information professionals in industry, government, and academia. It will be important to faculty and graduate students of telecommunications as a graduate textbook.

This is the first book describing cable networks, services, and their management in greater detail by thirteen experts in various fields covering network architectures and services, operations, administration, maintenance, provisioning, troubleshooting (OAMPT) for residential services; network architectures, services, and OAMPT for business services; Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Virtualization concepts Comprehensive reference book useful for people working for a multiple systems operator Includes chapter introductions Written by 13 experts in various fields such as network services and soft defined networks

Building Scalable Network Services: Theory and Practice is on building scalable network services on the Internet or in a network service provider's network. The focus is on network services that are provided through the use of a set of servers. The authors present a tiered scalable network service model and evaluate various services within this architecture. The service model simplifies design tasks by implementing only the most basic functionalities at lower tiers where the need for scalability dominates functionality. The book includes a number of theoretical results that are practical and applicable to real networks, such as building network-wide measurement, monitoring services, and strategies for building better P2P networks. Various issues in scalable system design and placement algorithms for service nodes are discussed. Using existing network services as well as potentially new but useful services as examples, the authors formalize the problem of placing service nodes and provide practical solutions for them.