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Shneyderman, Alex and Casati, Alessio. Fixed Mobile Convergence. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008.

Fixed Mobile Convergence

Authors: Alex Shneyderman and Alessio Casati

Published:  January 2008

eISBN: 9780071589383 0071589384 | ISBN: 9780071486064
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  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Convergence
  • What Is Convergence?
  • What Is Being Converged?
  • Convergence or Substitution?
  • Substitution Barriers
  • From Convergence to FMC
  • FMC Foundation
  • Brief History of Fixed-Mobile Convergence
  • DECT/GSM
  • Wireless PBX (MicroTAC/Home Base, Tele-Go [FreedomPlus])
  • CT2/CT2+, Rabbit, Fido
  • TDC, Duet, and EnRoute
  • Genion, One-Phone DU, FastForward
  • FMC Then and Now: Many Services over One Network vs. One Service over Many Networks
  • ISDN
  • B-ISDN and ATM
  • IP and the Internet: Breaking Free of Layer 2
  • Is FMC Happening?
  • Summary
  • Chapter 2 Business of FMC
  • New Band in Town
  • FMC Ecosystem
  • Mobile Operators
  • Fixed Operators
  • Vendors
  • Consumers
  • FMC Impact on Service Providers and Consumers
  • Fear and Greed
  • 4 Cs of FMC
  • FMC Drivers and Barriers
  • Drivers
  • Barriers
  • Deployment and Go-to-Market Strategy
  • Mobile Operators
  • Fixed Operators
  • Summary
  • Chapter 3 The F in FMC
  • The State of Fixed Networking
  • Traditional Voice
  • Voice over IP
  • Voice over IP Deployment
  • Summary
  • Chapter 4 The M in FMC
  • Mobility
  • Mobile Communications Systems Fundamentals
  • Core and Access
  • Circuit and Packet
  • Cellular Systems: The Sky Is the Limit
  • Cellular Generations
  • 3GPP Systems
  • 3GPP2 Systems
  • A Look into the Future
  • WiMAX: A Migration Away from Traditional Cellular Systems
  • Standardization and Deployment
  • Cellular Friend or Foe: Voice over Wi-Fi
  • Technology Fundamentals
  • Interference
  • Convergence of Mobile Systems
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5 The C in FMC
  • Convergence Technology Fundamentals
  • Levels of Integration
  • VoIP-Based Convergence
  • The Dual Nature of Dual Mode
  • IMS and MMD Fundamentals
  • IMS-Based Convergence
  • UMA/GAN
  • Femtocells
  • Femtocell Pros and Cons
  • Summary
  • Chapter 6 FMC Impact on Services and User Experience
  • FMC Scenarios and User Experience
  • Lightweight FMC
  • Use Case: Back-End Convergence
  • Use Case: Home Conditional Forwarding
  • Full-Scale FMC
  • Use Case: Quadruple Play for a Family of Four
  • Services and Applications Impacting FMC
  • Presence
  • LBS
  • Summary
  • Chapter 7 Looking Ahead
  • Meaning of Mobility Revisited
  • Old Taxonomy Obsolescence
  • Driving Toward Uniform Connectivity
  • New Application Ecosystem
  • Beyond Voice
  • Use Case: A Business Trip
  • From Here
  • Appendix A: FMC Standards
  • Toward the Identification of Commonalities
  • Standards Organizations’ Background
  • 3GPP and 3GPP2
  • ETSI
  • ITU-T
  • IEEE and the WiMAX Forum
  • IETF
  • OMA
  • FMCA
  • NGMN
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Finding Standards Documents Online
  • Appendix B: Acronyms
  • Appendix C: References
  • Index