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Service providers need to find viable test solutions to offer the as-yet elusive carrier-class voice over IP Although commercial deployment of voice-over-IP networks has begun, these networks are primarily new […]

Calculate the transformation of communications. Our increasing reliance on telecommunications is straining telephone networks that were not designed to carry the huge amounts of data that traverse them today. Consequently, […]

Discusses the need for test solutions in the deployment of voice over Internet Protocol (IP) technology. Advantages of the application of voice over IP; Use of Internet Engineering Task Force's multi-protocol label switching to deliver IP quality of service; Difficulties involved in IP/public network; Need for voice quality testing.

Focuses on the demand for hybrid broadband infrastructure from Internet service providers. Problems with getting a hybrid network; Challenge facing network operators and service providers; Analysis of the service delivery and network engineering. INSET: The wireless way.

Focuses on the Signaling System 7 (SS7) network. Amount of SS7 traffic being generated by telecommunications networks; Role of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; Need for incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers to find ways to distinguish themselves; Differences between the low-speed SS7 and high-speed SS7 technologies.

An interview with Emma Masters, an advanced nurse practitioner in hemato-oncology at the Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust's Oak Centre for Children and Young People in Sutton, Surrey in England, is presented. Masters describes her main work responsibilities and her patients. She explains how she got her job and what she likes about it. Masters also discusses the best lesson she learned from nursing.