By Robert Wood

A consultant to construction service-oriented networks to tell apart and develop your corporation• comprehend the altering panorama of the telecommunications and what applied sciences may end up in enterprise and profit development• learn the increase of IP in LAN, WAN, instant, and international networking functions• know about the multiservice community structure, together with next-generation ATM, IP/MPLS, MSPP, and MSSP structures• observe the strategic virtue provided via VPN applied sciences, together with IPsec VPNs, SSL VPNs, instant VPNs, site-to-site VPNs, Layer three and Layer 2 MPLS VPNs, VPLS, multicast VPNs, and multiservice VPNs• Get brought to optical know-how elements and optical gains together with SONET/SDH, RPR, DWDM, CWDM, optical Ethernet, and IP over optical• review metropolitan and long-haul optical networks to deal with emerging broadband calls for• study the basics of wireline networks, together with narrowband, ISDN, body Relay, electronic Loop service, Broadband xDSL, cable, and Ethernet in residential functions• unharness the facility of mobility, mobile, and instant LAN technologiesA new period of community prone has developed to fulfill the wishes of IP-centric networking specifications and patron chance. The emphasis is on provider as IP has turn into a prolific communications portal in which to convey interactive recommendations that increase enterprise execution, tie the person client into trade, and expand marketplace achieve by means of elimination the final obstacles of time and distance.Next-Generation community providers provides an summary of converged IP community providers, concentrating on possibilities for provider differentiation and introducing present service-oriented expertise. those applied sciences let provider companies and massive companies to construct and function networks that offer neighborhood, long-haul, cellular, and international facts and net providers to companies and consumers.This booklet explores the merchant chance within the new period, discussing what has replaced and why a service-centric concentration is the recent ascendancy. This booklet introduces an in depth portfolio of community applied sciences and explains the industry merits and the carrier worth of every answer, together with IP, multiservice, digital inner most community (VPN), optical, wireline, and instant networks.Whether you're a community architect or engineer using provider innovation inside a merchant or company community, otherwise you are a community government or know-how analyst seeking to achieve a extensive evaluate of the telecommunications quarter, Next-Generation community companies provides you with perception into the evolving internetworking applied sciences that may form the way forward for community development.