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- Avaya Case Study: Vipnet D.O.O.
- Vipnet is the first private GSM operator in Croatia. In September 1998, Vipnet was granted concession of the second GSM network in Croatia and Vipnet's network started working in July 1999. As a new operator in the GSM space, Vipnet sought to provide a best-in-class customer experience through the deployment...
- Tags: Avaya Inc., GSM, Vipnet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- On Accessing gsm-Enabled Mobile Sensors
- This paper proposes a middleware framework that unifies access to GSM-enabled sensor devices in a global computing environment. Typically, communication with mobile sensors relies on proprietary protocols, involving the exchange of SMS and MMS messages. In the proposed framework XML-based control descriptions are used that abstractly specify these protocols to...
- Tags: Mobile, Sensor, GSM, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Middleware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Spectroscopy of the Packet Radio Interfaces: A Case Study With gsm/GPRS
- This paper analyzes sessionwise IP packet interarrival time distributions taking into account packet sizes in the case where the IP packet trace was measured after the GSM/GPRS packet radio interface. In the analysis it was crucial that only the RLC layer worked in acknowledged acknowledged mode. In this specific case...
- Tags: Packet, GPRS, Radio, IP, GSM, Cellular Phones, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking
- White papers
- Modeling Frame-Level Errors in gsm Wireless Channels
- This paper compares four different approaches towards modeling frame-level errors in GSM channels. One of these, the Markov-based Trace Analysis model (MTA), was developed for the purpose of modeling a GSM channel. The next two, k-th-order Markov models and hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been widely used to model loss...
- Tags: GSM, Modeling, Research & Development, Cellular Phones, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers
- Satellite Backhaul Optimization for gsm and UMTS With Cisco RAN Optimization Solution
- Satellite backhaul links can be expensive, for both Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks and Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) networks in remote regions. The Cisco RAN Optimization solution allows wireless mobile operators to reduce their operating expenses (OpEx) while providing additional bandwidth over satellite backhaul links. This solution...
- Tags: UMTS, Optimization, Cisco Systems Inc., Satellite, GSM, Cisco RAN Optimization Solution, Roi/Tco, Cellular Phones, Network Technology, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking
- Case studies
- Become Better Connected With gsm
- When Yorkshire Water - one of the largest water utilities in the UK - decided to replace the Private Radio Network it used to communicate with its field workers, it turned to Orange to implement a GSM service for greater functionality and connectivity. Now more than 1700 staff across the...
- Tags: Orange PCS, Connected Corp., GSM, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- gsm Home Location Register Traffic Testing Solution Development
- The customer needed to perform full-capacity GSM Home Location Register traffic testing, for which they required an efficient traffic generator capable of simulating large volumes of concurrent calls. The universal traffic generator available at the time to the customer required special hardware and was costly to support and enhance. Thus,...
- Tags: GSM, MERA, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- Sharpening Dialog gsm's Competitive Edge
- Dialog GSM, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia was the first GSM operator in Sri Lanka. However Dialog GSM was the fourth player to enter the cellular market. To get ahead of the competition, Dialog GSM had to offer its customer services that went beyond 'voice'. To meet this challenge,...
- Tags: Mobile, GSM, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
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- gsm Modems Gain New Freedom With NPort
- InterCall Technology, Inc., has an excellent team of software engineers that can solve the toughest problems for using GSM modems to send short messages. Such problems include the data bit difference between Chinese and Latin words and multi-GSM modem failures. The most popular system used for this purpose is SMS...
- Tags: SMS, GSM, Modems, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking
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- Cutting the Cost of Calls to gsms for a Local Authority
- The Town Hall of a locality oversees eight schools (infant, junior and secondary). Parents give their mobile phone numbers so they can be reached if necessary. With 4000 minutes of communications to mobiles per month last year and further increases likely, the Town Hall was looking for a GSM gateway....
- Tags: School, Phone, Mobile, GSM, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- A gsm Gateway for Heavy Traffic in a Difficult Telecom Environment
- For its internal telephony and IT solutions, the French subsidiary of an American multinational is dependent on the choices of its head office. To connect the QuesCom 400 between the PBX and the operator's bridgehead, the telecoms manager did not need to touch the PBX. It took just a few...
- Tags: PBX, GSM, Equipment Room, Telephony, VOIP, Networking, Telecommunications
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- GRPS Technology Helps Origin Energy Achieve Costs Savings
- Do you collect telemetry data using a GSM communications system? Then you should consider the operating cost savings from changing to GRPS technology. Origin Energy now collects gas metering telemetry data from its high volume Adelaide Metropolitan customers via GPRS for a fraction of the operating cost of their previous...
- Tags: GSM, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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- gsm Network Extended in Remote Islands
- Worldwide, telecommunications companies are facing the challenge of extending cellphone coverage into remote, low-revenue locations. Low-subscriber densities, distance, difficult terrain and limited spectrum combine to make cost-effectiveness a critical issue. For French Polynesia's national communications provider, OPT (Office des Postes et Telecommunications), the task was to extend GSM coverage through...
- Tags: Cell Phone, GSM, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Networking
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- On the Impact of gsm Encryption and Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on the Security of Interoperating gsm/UMTS Networks
- GSM suffers from various security weaknesses. Furthermore, it is well-known that it is possible to mount a man-in-the-middle attack in GSM during authentication which allows an attacker to make a victim mobile station authenticate itself to a fake base station which in turn forwards the authentication traffic to the real...
- Tags: UMTS, Network, Encryption, Authentication, GSM, Attack, Cellular Phones, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers
- Capacity Analysis of the gsm Short Message Service
- This paper presents a simple queueing model to analyze the SMS capacity of a GSM cellular network. The analysis is based on a detailed study of GSM channels and their usage by SMS and other traffic. It is seen that SMS is sent on the same control channels that are...
- Tags: SMS, Analysis, GSM, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking
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- Reducing Churn in gsm Networks
- The webinar discusses the need for wireless carriers to take control of their own network synchronization, rather than continuing to rely on clock recovery from legacy wireline backhaul connections which present a point of vulnerability for these networks focused on mobile and real-time services. In mobile networks, timing improves mobile...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Symmetricom, Webinar, GSM, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Wireless, Marketing
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- Telefonica Moviles Selects Cisco IP RAN Optimization for gsm and UMTS Backhaul in Spain
- For mobile operators, one of the greatest costs in delivering mobile services is the deployment and management of radio access backhaul networks that connect cell-sites to the core. Most mobile operators lease their backhaul network lines, which are typically circuit-oriented T1/E1 trunks that are part of a large network with...
- Tags: Mobile Operator, UMTS, Mobile, Optimization, Network, IP, Telefonica, Cisco Systems Inc., GSM, Telefonica Moviles, Manufacturing, Advertising & Promotion, Networking, Marketing
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- Oracle Case Study: Federconsorzio Dolomiti Superski
- The Federconsorzio Dolomiti Superski is a trust federation that oversees 463 lift facilities spread across 12 valleys in one the most beautiful ski resort regions in the world. The trust wanted to offer tourists a secure, easy way to access ski-lift facilities throughout the Dolomites, and ensure that the network...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., GPRS, ISDN, GSM, Federconsorzio Dolomiti Superski, RFID, Cellular Phones, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Telecommunications
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- Success Story: Large gsm Operator Successfully Launches a Presence-Enabled Messenger Service
- Turkcell provides an array of mobile voice and data communications services in Turkey. In 2004, Turkcell quickly realised that Messenger would be a mass-market service with high growth potential. Turkcell believes that Messenger is an important solution. With the aid of statistics, combined with the market readiness and end-user benefits,...
- Tags: GSM, Turkcell, Messenger, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Spectroscopy of the Packet Radio Interfaces a Case Study With gsm/GPRS
- This paper applies some ideas presented in of network spectroscopy to the analysis of a packet radio interface. The author analyze the IP packet interarrival time distribution of upstream traffic, taking into account also the packet sizes in the case where the IP packet trace is measured after the Time...
- Tags: Packet, GPRS, Radio, IP, GSM, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
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