Taking a Customer-Centric View of Service Assurance

Sponsors: Brix Networks, TTI Telecom
Host: Caroline Chappell, Independent Analyst, Light Reading
Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. New York / 3:00 p.m. London
Overview:
As service providers strive to build a reputation for quality services, hoping to reduce churn and attract new and loyal customers, the importance of the end-user's experience is paramount. This Webinar discusses the importance of the customer perception of a service, relative to the traditional QOS monitoring approach to service assurance, and looks at the solutions available.

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4G/LTE (Sponsored by Cisco)
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Broadband
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Cable
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IP & Convergence
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Mobile Backhaul
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Optical Networking
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Service Provider IT
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Video (Sponsored by Cisco)
Broadcast (Mobile TV, etc.) (264), Broadcast video equipment (including encoding) (803), Cable TV chips (339), Compression (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4) (315), Content protection (393), Digital rights management (410), DVRs (833), Gaming consoles (77), Internet Video (1214), IPTV (3754), Middleware & business support systems (1051), Mobile TV (323), Network DVR (130), P2P (276), Satellite (576), Set-top boxes (1916), Stored video servers (420), Telepresence (242), TV (4369), Video equipment (2590), Video services (4465), Video software (1487), Videophone (202), VOD (2992)

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