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The wireless communications network architecture is predominantly characterized by second generation mobile networks aiming at increasing high speed data transfer. The objective is to implement a convergent network that satisfy traffic and traditional services demand, with enough flexibility to cover communications needs from fixed and mobile to IP services based on IMS. This paper proposes the use of IMS architecture as a solution for initial wireless services deployment and integration that will be used to respond to future communications demands as a standardized and open structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the state of the art technologies which are being deployed nowadays to implement convergence--UMA, UWB, Packet Cable 2.0--, business models that use convergent technologies, new Universal Service trends, world and regional situation and the major restrictions recently revealed in Europe when deploying convergence. It also gives a vision of convergence itself as the main "user" of broadband, new business models, economical features and new legal and regulatory incentives and disincentives regarding piracy, in particular, author's rights and the implementation of convergent terminals. Finally, regulatory levels are analyzed as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ENUM or Electronic Numbering Mapping, developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, has been considered the first convergence service between telephone networks and Internet. It is based on the association between telephone numbers and network resources or services within the Internet Domain Name System. ENUM is one of the solutions proposed by international standard organizations such as IETF, ITU, ETSI, etc. in order to achieve a Personal Communication Identifier. After introducing ENUM and its impact on networks and services, the paper briefly describes its gradual implementation in ETECSA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The digitalization process of telecommunications industries and the proliferation of Internet have given rise to a new phenomenon: convergence. Full convergence connectivity solutions appear and industries quickly evolve towards the so-called convergent industries highlighting telecommunication services mobilization at a worldwide level. This article gives an overview of these scenarios, the influence of technological advances and the fast development of markets which have moved forward regulatory adjustments to point out the necessity of regulators to face new challenges within changing, convergent and competitive modern environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

TiLab deal with the fixed-mobile convergence within the context of Telecom Italia's first meeting with the Financial Community held in April 2005, where strategies regarding this convergence were discussed. Thus, the authors examine the possible evolutions in a three-year period aiming at exposing the synergies and peculiarities of the new architecture of fixed and mobile network. A historical background based on the genesis of this approach is taken as a starting point giving path to those issues related to the architecture and technology. Moreover, they explain some basic aspects to explore current and future possibilities for this technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Convergence between traditional networks and networks based on packet switching and the migration process for their integration arouse new technical challenges as well as interrogations. In this article, the process of routing calls from the traditional network to a packet-switched network is described based on the analysis of a transition network scenario -- coexistence of the traditional and the packet-switched networks over Internet Protocol --. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The wireless communications network architecture is predominantly characterized by second generation mobile networks aiming at increasing high speed data transfer. The objective is to implement a convergent network that satisfy traffic and traditional services demand, with enough flexibility to cover communications needs from fixed and mobile to IP services based on IMS. This paper proposes the use of IMS architecture as a solution for initial wireless services deployment and integration that will be used to respond to future communications demands as a standardized and open structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]