Fixed Mobile Convergence Voice Over Wi-Fi, IMS, UMA and Other FMC Enablers
by Shneyderman, Alex; Casati, AlessioEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-02-04
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary
Global audience includes network managers, architects, product managers, engineers, and wireless professionals Written by well-known professionals and speakers in the telecommunications industry
Author Biography
Alex Shneyderman is a senior manager for Motorola, where he plays a key role in positioning advanced mobile technology with leading North American telecom service providers.
Alessio Casati works at Lucent Technologies, focusing on IMS and convergence.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Introduction to Convergence | p. 1 |
| What Is Convergence? | p. 1 |
| What Is Being Converged? | p. 3 |
| Convergence or Substitution? | p. 4 |
| Substitution Barriers | p. 5 |
| From Convergence to FMC | p. 8 |
| FMC Foundation | p. 8 |
| Brief History of Fixed-Mobile Convergence | p. 11 |
| DECT/GSM | p. 13 |
| Wireless PBX (MicroTAC/Home Base, Tele-Go [FreedomPlus]) | p. 14 |
| CT2/CT2+, Rabbit, Fido | p. 14 |
| TDC, Duet, and EnRoute | p. 15 |
| Genion, One-Phone DU, FastForward | p. 16 |
| FMC Then and Now: Many Services over One Network vs. One Service over Many Networks | p. 16 |
| ISDN | p. 16 |
| B-ISDN and ATM | p. 17 |
| IP and the Internet: Breaking Free of Layer 2 | p. 18 |
| Is FMC Happening? | p. 19 |
| Summary | p. 20 |
| Business of FMC | p. 21 |
| New Band in Town | p. 21 |
| FMC Ecosystem | p. 23 |
| Mobile Operators | p. 23 |
| Fixed Operators | p. 24 |
| Vendors | p. 24 |
| Consumers | p. 26 |
| FMC Impact on Service Providers and Consumers | p. 26 |
| Fear and Greed | p. 26 |
| 4 Cs of FMC | p. 27 |
| FMC Drivers and Barriers | p. 28 |
| Drivers | p. 30 |
| Barriers | p. 36 |
| Deployment and Go-to-Market Strategy | p. 43 |
| Mobile Operators | p. 43 |
| Fixed Operators | p. 44 |
| Summary | p. 45 |
| The F in FMC | p. 47 |
| The State of Fixed Networking | p. 47 |
| Traditional Voice | p. 48 |
| Voice over IP | p. 58 |
| Voice over IP Deployment | p. 70 |
| Summary | p. 78 |
| The M in FMC | p. 79 |
| Mobility | p. 80 |
| Mobile Communications Systems Fundamentals | p. 80 |
| Core and Access | p. 80 |
| Circuit and Packet | p. 82 |
| Cellular Systems: The Sky Is the Limit | p. 83 |
| Cellular Generations | p. 84 |
| 3GPP Systems | p. 88 |
| 3GPP2 Systems | p. 98 |
| A Look into the Future | p. 104 |
| WiMAX: A Migration Away from Traditional Cellular Systems | p. 106 |
| Standardization and Deployment | p. 107 |
| Cellular Friend or Foe: Voice over Wi-Fi | p. 111 |
| Technology Fundamentals | p. 112 |
| Interference | p. 115 |
| Convergence of Mobile Systems | p. 130 |
| Summary | p. 131 |
| The C in FMC | p. 133 |
| Convergence Technology Fundamentals | p. 133 |
| Levels of Integration | p. 134 |
| VoIP-Based Convergence | p. 135 |
| The Dual Nature of Dual Mode | p. 136 |
| IMS and MMD Fundamentals | p. 136 |
| IMS-Based Convergence | p. 147 |
| UMA/GAN | p. 154 |
| Femtocells | p. 163 |
| Femtocell Pros and Cons | p. 168 |
| Summary | p. 172 |
| FMC Impact on Services and User Experience | p. 173 |
| FMC Scenarios and User Experience | p. 173 |
| Lightweight FMC | p. 174 |
| Use Case: Back-End Convergence | p. 177 |
| Use Case: Home Conditional Forwarding | p. 181 |
| Full-Scale FMC | p. 182 |
| Use Case: Quadruple Play for a Family of Four | p. 189 |
| Services and Applications Impacting FMC | p. 191 |
| Presence | p. 191 |
| LBS | p. 201 |
| Summary | p. 205 |
| Looking Ahead | p. 207 |
| Meaning of Mobility Revisited | p. 207 |
| Old Taxonomy Obsolescence | p. 208 |
| Driving Toward Uniform Connectivity | p. 210 |
| New Application Ecosystem | p. 210 |
| Beyond Voice | p. 213 |
| Use Case: A Business Trip | p. 225 |
| From Here | p. 228 |
| FMC Standards | p. 231 |
| Toward the Identification of Commonalities | p. 232 |
| Standards Organizations' Background | p. 232 |
| 3GPP and 3GPP2 | p. 232 |
| ETSI | p. 233 |
| ITU-T | p. 234 |
| IEEE and the WiMAX Forum | p. 234 |
| IETF | p. 235 |
| OMA | p. 235 |
| FMCA | p. 236 |
| NGMN | p. 236 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 236 |
| Finding Standards Documents Online | p. 237 |
| Acronyms | p. 239 |
| References | p. 247 |
| Index | p. 257 |
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