Telecommunications Disruption

Disruption in the ICT-Sector:
 Will Former Telecommunications Monopolists Stumble across VoIP?

In the context of the European wire-line telecommunications industry this work elaborates on the popular claim that the data-oriented voice transmission technology Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) does constitute a disruptive technology or innovation. The inability to anticipate new technologies, which emerge from below, has often been put forward as the main reason for the failure of establ...

A Telecommunications Development Framework for Telecommunications Operators in the Sadc

Telecommunications development in Southern Africa is encouraged by government-level support and market trends. Various markets in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region offer telecommunications operators’ solid growth potential and the advantages of geographic diversification. This paper presents a logical methodology for telecommunications operators (mobile or fixed) to guide...

AI in Telecommunications

The telecommunications industry has been a fertile field of application for A I . Some of the earliest field applications of expert sy terns were in telecommunications. So when we are looking to the future we wish to examine the current status of AI in telecommunications. Is telecommunications to continue to be at the center of application of AI? If so what are the applications that wil l be ex...

Platform Competition in Telecommunications

Telecommunications and Network Security

The CIA TRIAD The following is how to preserve the CIA triad in the telecommunications and network security domain: Confidentiality – Network Security Protocols – Network authentication services – Data Encryption Services Integrity-Firewall Services-Communications Security Management-IDS's Availability-Fault tolerance for data availability, such as backups and redundant disk systems-Acceptable ...