Nigel Seel

Business Strategies for the Next-Generation Network (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

After reviewing the failed attempts of carriers to retool for the future, this book describes the technologies and capabilities supporting next generation services, focusing particularly on multimedia interactive services, TV, and video-on-demand. The author looks at the IMS layer and how it interworks both downwards into the QoS-enabled IP transport layer and upwards to enable new kinds of applications. Equal attention is paid to the business models of stakeholders in the value chain, including carriers, service providers, broadcasters, and production companies. The author discusses how carriers have attempted to remodel themselves as IP companies, before detailing more innovativebusiness models,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781420013603
• Artikelnr.: 53049912

Autorenporträt

After a period as a mathematics teacher and commercial programmer, Nigel Seel spent the 1980s in the UK lab of IT&T working on formal methods for software development, artifi cial intelligence, and distributed computing. He also completed his Ph.D. in artifi cial intelligence and mathematical logic. In the 1990s Nigel worked in Bell-Northern Research (Nortel's R&D organization) and later Nortel itself as a carrier network architect, latterly being lead designer for Cable & Wireless's £400 million UK network rebuild in 1998-99. He then freelanced as an independent designer until 2001 when he was hired by Cable & Wireless Global as chief architect, and relocated to Vienna, Virginia. Subsequently he was appointed vice president for portfolio development. Following the collapse of C&W Global Nigel relocated back to the UK. After more freelance consultancy, he worked with the UK management consultancy Mentor from April 2004 through January 2006. He is currently freelancing again through his company Interweave Consulting.