One of the most popular offerings telecom companies now provide is the triple play, which consists of voice, video, and data, all from one company and with one bill. This book addresses the challenges and benefits of offering converged services and looks at how the new technology is affecting companies and customers.

“Triple Play”is a combination of Internet access, voice communication (telephony), and entertainment services such as IP television and video on demand. The erosion of the traditional voice service, together with the ever-increasing competition between companies, is pushing the telecommunications industry towards a major shift in its business models. Customers want more services in a more flexible way. Today, this shift can only be carried out by offering converged services built around the Internet Protocol (IP). Triple Play, a bundle of voice, video, and data services for residential customers, is the basis of this new strategy. Hens and Caballero explain how and why the telecommunications industry is facing this change, how to define, implement and offer these new services, and describes the technology behind the converged network. Triple Play analyses a number of business strategies to minimise costs, while migrating infrastructures and offering new services. Triple Play: Describes the elementary concepts of triple play service provision and gives detailed technical information to highlight key aspects. Discussed access networks, transport, signaling, service definition and business models. Covers the latest innovations in Triple Play services such as Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM), VDSL2 (Very High Speed DSL second generation), pseudowires andMultiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). Explores video solutions (encoding, IPTV, VoD) alongside transmission and switching technologies (Ethernet, DSL, PON, NG-SDH). Includes a chapter on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and on fixed/mobile convergence. Triple Play: Building the Converged Network for IP, VoIP and IPTV provides decision makers, engineers, telecommunications operators, network equipment manufacturers, installers and IT managers with a thorough understanding of the changes of traditional voice service and its impact upon the telecommunications industry.

The Triple Play of Business By: Bob Steinberg Starting his own business, Bob Steinberg knows what it takes to face the risks and challenges of running a successful company. This book is about how the establishment of a positive culture, containing three essential elements, provides a much healthier environment for employees, in contrast to the traditional approaches of most other corporations.

An indispensable reference publication for telecommunication and information-industry professionals. Each year, the IEC brings together into one unique resource the most current thinking and practical experience of industry leaders around the world on a variety of topics facing their areas of specialization. This 700+ page reference tool is a must for executives, managers, engineers, analysts, and educators in all sectors of today's changing information industry.

This book discusses the development strategies of Chinese media convergence in the current, fast-changing communication environment. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical data and based on the author’s observations, focus groups, and in-depth analyses of selected Chinese radio and TV networks, it illustrates key lessons for the maintenance and future improvement of talents, advertisement, media organization management, business development, and coping strategies. Further, it outlines a framework that helps readers to consider how to use communication strategies for the construction of media convergence in the context of China by referring to theories of international communication and political communication. Presenting research on the development strategies of Chinese media convergence, it offers a systematic study of the processes through which the Chinese radio and television industries make use of proper communication strategies to have a profound global influence.

Gillian Douglas returns from her London adventure with a broken leg and pregnant due to counterfeit birth control pills. The "thermonuclear blond" reflects on her life and motherhood while she begins to build a family like no other with five women and two men, a superfamily. Meanwhile, Gillian seeks vengeance on the drug counterfeiters; the son of the head of Yakuza is kidnapped by a Russian gangster, Nikolai Startsev and once more Mister Sato hires "Angel Eyes." Doctor Moreland, her boss, retires to his yacht in the Mediterranean but it's all a cover for Gillian's planned war on terrorists and drug lords in Africa and Sicily in a future op. Take an emotional ride with two of the deadliest women on Earth, Gillian Douglas and her wife and partner, Lorraine King with "Triple Play" and then purchase and read "War Goddess" for the exciting conclusion to this two part story.

Discover clever, beginner-friendly strategies for showcasing the abundance of fabrics available today--as well as the fabrics in your stash. Choose from nine quilt patterns that are each shown in three different colorways: "coordinated scrappy," "planned scrappy," and "make-do scrappy" Learn tips, tricks, and techniques including paper piecing, appliqué, alternatives for making half-square triangles, strip piecing, chain piecing, and more Create quilts that use fat eighths, fat quarters, and yardage, as well as precut strips and squares