2007 Theme: Convergent Communications
The sixteenth Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC)
will bring
together technical experts and business leaders from the North America and
Pacific Rim to discuss
multimedia, optical, and wireless communications technologies and business
opportunities. The
theme of WOCC 2007 is Convergent Communications over public mobile wireless
networks,
public fixed broadband wireline networks, and private customer premises
networks. The integration
of these three networks is the focus of a new next-generation network (NGN)
providing convergent
user-centric services that are no longer associated with the types of
network access or content
media. Instead, these convergent user-centric services will offer seamless
delivery of multimedia
applications including voice, data, image, and streaming video independent
of any access
technologies. The transport layer protocol is converging on Internet
Protocol (IP) that propelled the
growth of World Wide Web (WWW). The network and service providers will need
to deploy
standard-compliant converged networks and offer these new value-added
services to save
operational cost and grow their revenue. Convergent Communications can truly
be considered as the
enabler for the next phase of growth for the telecommunication industry.
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