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Protecting IP Services from the Latest Trends in Botnets and DDoS AttacksService providers around the world are accelerating their deployment of networks built on high-speed fiber optics and IP-based services, such as MPLS, IPTV, VoIP and VPN. Although there clearly is a broad range of benefits available from these new networks and services, there is an equally broad range of security threats that can seriously curtail or even wipe out those benefits. This paper provides insight into the growing trends in security threats and methods for defending networks from these cyber-enemies. 
Maintaining the Edge: Voice Quality Management in a VoIP EnvironmentThe migration to next-generation IP networks has been a gradual one, as carriers have balanced new service deployment with the reality that the IP world lacked comprehensive and cost-effective quality management systems. This has been especially true of voice quality management, with adoption of VoIP moving rapidly ahead of efforts to diagnose problems. What is needed is a solution that simplifies VoIP network management and diagnostics, and compiles quality data in a way that carriers can act quickly on it.
Mergers, Migrations, and MetaSwitch: How One Communications Built its Next-Generation NetworkFormed through the merger of three prominent CLECs, One Communications was tasked with integrating its formerly independent network architectures into one single voice network. With the integration came opportunity, in the form of streamlined operations. This white paper from describes how One Communications was able to leverage MetaSwitch solutions to save operating costs from power, space, and maintenance and to deliver new converged services, all with negligible customer impact.
Service Delivery Platforms: "New Services Made Easy"Today's service providers are facing well-known challenges: ARPU erosion as voice becomes a commodity; and aggressive competitors offering a broad range of services. In response, they must deliver new high-revenue services. Unfortunately, there is a major obstacle barring their path: their traditional network integration and marketing processes mean that new service development takes a very long time and costs a huge amount. That's why the Service Delivery Platform was developed. This white paper by Daniel Marcus of MetaSwitch describes how an SDP allows service providers to define, develop and deploy new services far faster than they have been able to in the past, all while reducing the cost of service deployment. 
Addressing Data Integration Challenges with SOAA big challenge for telecoms is validating data exchange as they integrate business applications. SOA (service-oriented architecture) offers tremendous promise to streamline application development and enable productive re-use of existing services. Learn how SOA is gaining ground.
Using the SID in OSS/BSS IntegrationWith important advances in the Shared Information/Data (SID), there is now a basis for developing reusable data models for integrated business applications. But what are the requirements for using SID within OSS/BSS integration projects?
Stratecast White Paper: Common Information Modeling in a SOA EnvironmentAs SOA implementations proliferate, integration can not occur without careful attention to data architecture. Service providers who are creating a formal structure for effectively validating OSS/BSS data through a Common Information Model are seeing significant benefits. WHITE PAPER LIBRARY
ENUM: Call Routing in an all IP WorldOne of the challenges created by the IP evolution is how to interface the PSTN to IP networks, which utilize different numbering schemes, to enable the seamless delivery of calls between the two domains. Although still in relative infancy, electronic number mapping (ENUM) appears to be the solution. This whitepaper explores ENUM and its different implementation types, introduces the concept of the subscriber routing database (SRdB) and describes how the SRdB improves network efficiency and delivers cost savings for operators.
Service Orchestration & Mediation: Creating a Foundation for Delivering Mixed ServicesWhile the transition to IMS appears imminent, the exact arrival time is not clear. One thing is clear - the move to IMS will be a gradual transition over time, requiring the interplay of different network applications, technologies and protocols as the networks evolve. This whitepaper examines how operators can use service orchestration and mediation to create a flexible service architecture for the delivery of rich, mixed services in pre-IMS, IMS and hybrid networks.
SIP Signaling and Session Control: Upgrading the NGN to Support Multimedia ServicesThe current voice-centric NGN architecture has no core-signaling infrastructure, which greatly limits expansion capabilities. NGN expansion without a core signaling infrastructure causes scalability and availability issues, increases routing and service complexity, increases IOT and operations costs, limits vendor choice, cannot support multimedia services and does not interwork with or provide a feasible evolution path to future IMS technologies. With a capable SIP signaling and control layer, session-related tasks are migrated from the edge NGN nodes to a centralized core session framework, resulting in an NGN architecture able to meet the increasing demand for VoIP, as well as multimedia services. 
Premises to Keep: CPE as a Critical Success Factor for VoIP Service ProvidersA service provider's choice of customer premises equipment (CPE) plays a critical role in addressing these multiple challenges and can have a major impact on a wide range of issues that concern VoIP customers - including survivability, support for existing analog devices, and PSTN connectivity. Find out why the selection of the right CPE can help VoIP service providers to better satisfy market demands, gain competitive advantages, and achieve higher operating margins. 
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