The Next Telecom Boom

Chapter One: You Can' t Be A "One Trick Pony" and Expect to Survive in the Telecom Market of 2012

• Challenges for Incumbent Telephone Companies
  • OPEX
  • CAPEX
  • Cost per Subscriber
• Challenges for Cable TV Companies
  • ARPU
  • Mostly Residential
  • VoIP
• Challenges for Satellite TV Providers
  • CAPEX
  • Limitations
• Challenges for Cell Phone Service Providers
  • CAPEX
  • OPEX
• Summary

What Happens Next: The Four Big Telecom Technology Trends

• Big Trend #1: IMS - The Basis for Triple and Quadruple Play
  • IMS Vision
• Big Trend #2: VoIP
  • VoIP Architecture
  • The Physical Layer: Access via Media Gateways and Other Devices
  • The Control Layer: The Softswitch
  • The Session Border Controller (SBC)
  • Peer-to-peer Telephony
  • The Asterisk PBX
  • Conclusion
• Big Trend #3: IPTV
  • Mobile TV
• Big Trend #4: Wireless
  • What is WiMAX?
  • Fixed WiMAX
  • Mobile WiMAX
  • WiMAX is not Wi-Fi
  • WiMAX as compared to LMDS and MMDS
  • Interference
  • Antenna Technologies and Interference
  • Prioritizing Traffic
• WiMAX Security

Four Big Trends Applications or "What will the AWS auction winners do with their new networks?"

• PSTN bypass with the Four Big Trends
• IMS + WiMAX + VoIP - The "killer app" of Three Big Trends
• Four Big Trends Applications Mobile (IEEE 802.16e-2005)
• IMS + VoIP + WiMAX = cellular alternative

Four Big Trends Economics: Compare WiMAX with Other Technologies

Conclusions