"Contents :
- Table of Contents by Author
- International Engineering Consortium
- Consortium Affiliated Universities
- Introduction: Local Loop: A New Landscape
- Part I: The Competitive Environment and Markets
- Transition to the New Local Loop: Required Capabilities
- Local Loop Access and Interconnection: Can CLECs Survive in the Local Market?
- Winning Strategies for Local Exchange Services
- Opportunities and Challenges in Broadband and Multimedia for the Local Loop
- Local Number Portability: Can the Incumbents Afford It?
- New Services and Revenue Opportunities in the Local Loop
- Performance Standards Key to Interconnection
- Winning Strategies for Growing and Sustaining Revenues in the Era of
Convergence
- Electronic Commerce Market Demand Versus the Potential of Loop Access
Technologies
- Economical Fiber-in-the-Loop
- Part II: Regulatory Progress
- State Progress and Problems in Interconnecting the Local Loop
- Leveling the Local Playing Field: Telecommunications Reform Comes to Main
Street
- The Telecommunications Act of 1996: Implementation and Implications
- Telecommunications Competition and Universal Service: The Essential Tradeoffs
That Must Be Made
- Part III: Technologies, Operations, Services, and Applications
- Network Routing Scalability in ADSL Systems
- Fiber Access Architectures for Broadband Services A Review of the Available
Technologies
- Direct Satellite Service Access Tutorial
- The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
- ADSL: Opportunities Along the Information CopperHighway
- Clean Architectures as a Key to Flexible Growth
- Time Warner: Orlando, Florida and Rochester, New York
- Lessons Learned from the Deployment of Telephony Over HFC: A Case Study
- Network Architecture: Which Way To Go?
- Using TMN for Service Management in the Local Loop
- Optimizing the Infrastructure: Past, Present, and Future
- End-To-End Connectivity: The Foundation of Broadband Networks
- High-Bandwidth Services Over Copper Plant
- Data Services in the Local Loop
- Residential Broadband Data
- From POTS to Interactive Multimedia Services
- Winning the Battle for Data Services in the Local Loop
- Digital Video: Ready For Prime Time
- Broadband Local Access Architectures
- Fiber Antics: Practical Lessons in Building a Municipal Fiber-Optic Network
- Early Broadband Deployment in an Electric Utility
- SNMP Management for ADSL
- Rejuvenated ADSL Scores High
- The Role of Object-Oriented Database Technology Within Telecommunications
- The Full-Service Network from a Low-Density Perspective
- Business and Customer Operations: Object-Oriented Billing
- Part IV: Customer Considerations and Marketing
- Promotions Issues in the Competitive Local Exchange Network
- Understanding End-User Selection of Information and Entertainment Channels
- Data Warehousing for Marketing and Customer Care
- Customer-Contact Systems: The New Competitive Battleground
- Changes in Household Purchases of Telecommunications Services and the Need
for Branding and Bundling
- Part V: Wireless in the Loop
- A Wireless Local Loop Business Case
- Wireless Access
- Wireless Technologies in the Local Loop: The Case for PACS
- Terrestrial Wireless Access Systems for the Local Loop
- Wireless Broadband Future: Utilizing 38 GHz
- Radio Local Loop Based on DECT: Enhancements to Increase Capacity
- Low-Tier Wireless Local Loop Radio Systems Part 1: Introduction
- Low-Tier Wireless Local Loop Radio Systems Part 2: Comparison of Systems
- Acronym Guide
- Index "
