• Vision for the Future
  • Looking Ahead: Technology Evolution and the Biz of Telecommunications
    Tutorial presented at : DLTs in Brazil in August 2004.
    Author(s): Roberto Saracco
  • Software Radio Implementation for MIMO/OFDM High-Speed Wireless LAN/MAN with Space-Time Coding and BLAST Technologies
    Tutorial by Weidong Xiang, University of Michigan, Dearborn
  • Broadband Wireless Access – The Next Wireless Revolution
    Benny Bing, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Broadband Fiber Access
    Leonid G. Kazovsky, David Gutierrez, Wei-Tao Shaw, Gordon Wong, Stanford University
  • Peer-to-Peer Technologies for Next Generation Communication Systems – Basic Principles and Advanced Issues
  • WiMax - Mobilizing the Internet
  • MPLS - The importance of offering the right solution at the right moment
  • IPTV Deployment Challenges and Opportunities
  • LTE technology and LTE test; a deskside chat', Christina Gessner and Andreas Roessler
• NGN Multimedia Services
• Next Generation Network (NGN)
• Fixed Access Networks
  • xDSL
    • ISDN
    • HDSL
    • ADSL
    • VDSL
    • SDSL
  • HFC
    • Cable MODEMs
    • IPTV Network Architectures and Protocols
    • 'IPTV Deployment Challenges and Opportunities', Anurag Srivastava & Swarup Acharya, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, IEEE Tutorial
    • Presentation Slides for IPTV Deployment Challenges and Opportunities
      • What is IPTV?
      • IPTV Market Drivers
      • Triple Play-IPTV
      • IPTV Technology Enablers
      • Transport Net Architectures for IPTV
      • IPTV Deployment Challenges
      • IPTV Competitive Threat
      • IPTV Vendors and Service Provider Strategies
      • Conclusion
  • PLC
  • Optical Access Networks
    • Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Architectures
    • xPONs

• Wireless Networks
  • Radio Overview: Summary of Different Wireless Approaches
  • PANs
  • GAN
  • WLANs/WMANs
    • WiFi
    • DECT
    • xMDS
    • LMDS
    • MMDS
    • Fixed WiMAX
  • PMR
    • TETRA
    • DAWS
  • GSM
    • GPRS
    • EDGE
  • UMTS
    • HSPA
  • LTE
  • Mobile WiMAX
  • xG
  • Satellite Communications
    • LEO
    • MEO
    • GEO

• Transport Networks

• ATM
• Internet

• 'Evolution of Internet', Prof. L. Kleinrock, Istanbul 2008
• The key drivers of IP network with QoS
• Applications/Services and Requirements
• IP QoS Definition
• IP QoS Architectures
  • Integrated Services Architecture (Int-Serv)
  • Differentiated Services Architecture (Diff-Serv)
• Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
  • MPLS Background and Overview
  • History. PAGEREF _Toc173309857 \h 1
  • Concept. PAGEREF _Toc173309858 \h 2
  • MPLS Frame.. PAGEREF _Toc173309859 \h 3
  • FEC.. PAGEREF _Toc173309860 \h 4
  • Routing.. PAGEREF _Toc173309861 \h 4
  • Label Path Control PAGEREF _Toc173309862 \h 4
  • Traffic Control Mechanisms. PAGEREF _Toc173309863 \h 4
  • Data Link Layer. PAGEREF _Toc173309864 \h 5
  • Label Distribution Mechanisms. PAGEREF _Toc173309865 \h 5
  • QoS in MPLS.. PAGEREF _Toc173309866 \h 7
  • Positive Features of MPLS.. PAGEREF _Toc173309867 \h 8
  • Efficient Packet Forwarding.. PAGEREF _Toc173309868 \h 8
  • Qos. PAGEREF _Toc173309869 \h 8
  • Traffic Engineering.. PAGEREF _Toc173309870 \h 8
  • Virtual Private Networks. PAGEREF _Toc173309871 \h 9
  • Shortcomings of MPLS.. PAGEREF _Toc173309872 \h 10
  • Flexibility. PAGEREF _Toc173309873 \h 10
  • Overhead.. PAGEREF _Toc173309874 \h 10
  • Multicast. PAGEREF _Toc173309875 \h 11
  • QoS.. PAGEREF _Toc173309876 \h 11
  • Data Link Layer. PAGEREF _Toc173309877 \h 11
• IPv6
• IP QoS Node

• Optical Networks
  • Optical Nets and Services in Future Broadband Networks
  • The Vision-An All Optical Network
  • Broadband Networks
  • Optical Networking
  • Optical Services
  • Optical WANs
    • Optical WAN Service Options
  • Optical MANs
    • Optical MAN Service Options
  • Optical LANs
    • Optical LAN Service Options
  • Optical Technology & Architectures
    • WDM Links
    • Broadcast & Select Nets
    • PONs
    • Wavelength Routing Nets
    • OTDM
    • OCDM
  • Competing Optical Technologies
• Security and Video Surveillance Systems
• Network Economics
• Vendor White Papers
• TACS White Papers
• Resources