Whitepapers

Surviving The Online Retail Onslaught

Brick-and-mortar retailers are increasingly finding it difficult to attract shoppers to their stores as people turn to the comforts of online shopping. This whitepaper analyzes the causes and suggests innovations that can be done to reverse the trends.

Wireless in the Metro – Packet Microwave Explained

This whitepaper outlines the packet microwave technology, and its typical usage, benefits, applications, and deployment topologies. It provides telecom equipment manufacturers with solutions to the specific challenges posed by packet transport over microwave in the MAN and RAN.

LTE Advanced – LIPA and SIPTO

This whitepaper provides exhaustive insights into how offloading technologies such as Local IP Access (LIPA) and Selected Internet IP Traffic Offload (SIPTO) can be leveraged for LTE to reduce costs and complexity associated with the network.

MVNOs: Multiply Your Margins And Move Up The Value Chain

MVNOs looking to offer next-generation services or increase margins must adopt more than just a selling and marketing face to the "pipe". Reseller MVNOs will need to eventually evolve to full MVNOs, managing their own service fulfillment and delivery components in addition to BSS systems. Our whitepaper talks about how MVNOs can look to move up the value chain and bolster margins.

MVNOs: 8 Weeks to Best-in-Class Revenue Management

Aricent’s Revenue Management solution for MVNOs has been implemented successfully at a leading European client.

Understanding Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS) for Carrier Networks

This whitepaper delves into the resiliency mechanisms of the ERPS protocol for Ethernet networks, and its latest enhancements and applications to various ring topologies.

Ethernet: The Key Catalyst for Network Convergence inside the Datacenter

This whitepaper demystifies the new standards, alternatives, and specifications in the Datacenter Ethernet domain. The aim is to help telecom equipment manufacturers understand and choose the best options for datacenter network convergence, and overcome the challenges of implementing them.

Federated Collaboration: The New World Order

This paper discusses the new enterprise experience, in which inter-domain federation is established between multiple UC Platforms across enterprises. Interdomain Federation is secure, policy-regulated collaboration between multiple enterprises or public domains that enables the exchange of messaging and presence information between users.

Developing a QoS aware framework for LTE

This guide provides exhaustive insights into how operators can leverage a QoS aware framework to provide differential treatment based on subscribers, services and data traffic flows. The guide has been developed based on our experience with leading LTE vendors.