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Bridging the industry divide between the technical expertise of engineers and the aims of market and business planners, Making Telecoms Work provides a basis for more effective interdisciplinary analysis of technology, engineering, market and business investment risk and opportunity. Since fixed and mobile broadband has become a dominant deliverable, multiple areas of transition and transformation have occurred; the book places these changes in the context of the political, social and economic dynamics of the global telecommunications industry.Drawing on 25 years of participative experience in the mobile phone and telecommunications industry, the author closely analyses the materials, components and devices that have had a transformative impact. By presenting detailed case studies of materials innovation, such as those shown at success story Apple, the book shows how the collaboration of technological imagination with business knowledge will shape the industry's future.* Makes a link between the technical aspects and the business practice of the telecoms industry, highlighting the commercial and economic significance of new developments* Gives a historical analysis of past successes and failures in order to identify future competitive advantage opportunities* Supplies detailed case studies of supply chain disconnects and the impact these have on industry risk and profitability* Brings together technological detail with analysis of what is and is not commercially important, from the implications of energy and environmental networks to the technical details of wireless network hardware.

Making Telecoms Work: From Technical Innovation to Commercial Success

Foreword xviiList of Acronyms and Abbreviations xixAcknowledgements xxiii1 Introduction 1Part I USER HARDWARE2 Physical Layer Connectivity 153 Interrelationship of the Physical Layer with Other Layers of the OSI Model 554 Telecommunications Economies of Scale 915 Wireless User Hardware 1256 Cable, Copper, Wireless and Fibre and theWorld of the Big TV 167Part II USER SOFTWARE7 Device-Centric Software 1758 User-Centric Software 1859 Content- and Entertainment-Centric Software 19910 Information-Centric Software 21111 Transaction-Centric Software 229Part III NETWORK HARDWARE12 Wireless Radio Access Network Hardware 23713 Wireless Core Network Hardware 25714 Cable Network and Fibre Network Technologies and Topologies 26715 Terrestrial Broadcast/Cellular Network Integration 27516 Satellite Networks 303Part IV NETWORK SOFTWARE17 Network Software - The User Experience 33518 Network Software - Energy Management and Control 34719 Network Software - Microdevices and Microdevice Networks - The Software of the Very Small 35320 Server Software 36321 Future Trends, Forecasting, the Age of Adaptation and More Transformative Transforms 369Index 391