Putting Broadband to work Broadband value added services create value and loyalty, thus revenue. Abstract Broadband carriers, access, and service providers initially focused on providing Internet Access. As competition and price pressure intensify, Providers are seeking to deploy IP-based value added services. Rapid Industry adoption of rich streaming media is being driven by an eco system of interested parties: Service providers, Advertisers, Broadcasters, Consumers and Carriers.
This rapid conversion needs a new platform to manage, store, protect and distribute Broadband Content of all types (Games, Video, Music and Business Applications) This document describes the needs and the solution for such a platform, empowering the new breed of horizontally layered providers of services. RAGA’s platform was developed to uniquely address these concerns and offer and end-to-end solution for Broadband Content Delivery. We regard Broadband as a powerful technology, potentially a “Killer App”, because it can change and redefine our lifestyle, reshaping infotainment and the way we use our leisure. Broadband is a new infrastructure for numerous Infotainment services not possible before. It enables a Content Revolution in Entertainment (especially Music, Video and Games), education, Productivity and Communication. During the last two years, the industry seems to understand this trend, and traditionally well-defined borders between separate types of operators seem to now blend.
The Term Paper on Positioning Strategies For Service Providers
The following article is concerned with the importance of positioning strategies to a service provider and the associated steps in selecting and supporting such a strategy through the effective management of marketing resources and the development of a competitive advantage through superior quality management. The article is structured into two major sections dealing with a) the selection and b) ...
The Telecommunications Market is undergoing a vast convergence process. Different industries, having served in the past different sectors in the market, have now contributed, mostly thanks to technological advances, to the formation of the “Information Society”, where the general public accesses incommensurable quantities of all types of content and media: Basic requirements to deliver Broadband Content To fully realize the potential of a public network delivering Broadband On-Demand content to a ‘segment of one’ user, service intelligence is needed in the network, across all applications. To get a coherent and repetitive intelligence across many applications, the best solution is to host them on a single Middleware or Platform (which is what the RAGATM framework is all about), which applies the intelligence to all content and applications. The service intelligence needs to ask each user: Who are you? What applications do you want to use? Are you allowed to use it? What class of service do you require? How much are you willing to pay for that service? The platform must then dynamically apply the necessary combination of security, performance, address management, and protocol functions.
This user-oriented, session-aware service model requires that the platform support the following service intelligence functions: User Authentication and Authorization -for secure access control Security – to ensure privacy and to protect content CoS and QoS for tiered services and integration data, voice and video Address management – for guaranteed connection of the right content to the right user Accounting – fine-grained for usage-based billing Customer Network management – self provisioning and management Content Delivery management – by multiple content providers themselves Trouble shooting – end-to-end from the content provider, through the network, to the subscriber terminal All these functions reside in the middle ware layer connected to each and very user-application (Video-on-demand, Interactive Games, etc.
The Essay on Important Role In Service Users
People who play an important role in service users lives are families and significant others. These are more often than not the people who know the service user best and can be an invaluable source of information and support. Family members and significant others are a very good source of information which may help support workers to understand the service user’s needs, preferences, history choice ...
) to provide a common interface for a simple, friendly and coherent user experience. Here is how the RAGATM platform logical design applies the layered approach: At the end of the day, what we really need to deliver is the quality we take for granted in today’s PSTN, namely the ‘ten commandments’ of uninterrupted service: Availability, Affordability, Services, Security, Scalability, Simplicity, Connectivity, Performance, Flexibility, Ubiquity. And because new IP services appear and evolve so rapidly, we need to do all that in a manner that minimizes time to market. A new service should be integrated, tested and be ready to launch in a matter of days, not months.
Another way to look at it is to realize we are providing LAN features over WAN. This makes the public network into an “Intranet” for the authenticated subscribers. Once authenticated by their IP address and password, the subscribers get fast access to Broadband Content as if it was installed on their LAN. Their ‘IT department’ is the access provider, assuring trouble free availability of the service.
Who is the customer? Identifying business models. Both content providers and consumers derive benefits from the content distribution. Consumers get high-quality full-screen video, games, Entertainment, and software. Content Providers get access to the mass of subscribers, in what is actually a new distribution channel. It makes sense to derive revenues from each of these users.
The network operator may offer his services to multiple content providers, providing them with contracted storage space, access to it’s backbone to distribute content, security and subscriber management. This warrants a fee. As an example, all www sites owners with video elements may become customers. Think of a cinema chain in which websites you can review titles in a theatre near you and buy tickets. To preview a movie trailer, the visitor clicks on an icon, which today yields a small postage stamp size of jerky clip. What if this icon clicking instead only activates a link (metadata) to a broadband platform hosting the clips at the last mile, to stream full-screen quality trailer to the visitor’s screen? Definitely a better surfing experience, differentiating this site from competitors.
The Essay on Service Distribution
A service can be defined as an essentially intangible benefit either on its own right or as a significant part of a tangible product which through some form of exchange satisfies an identified need (Palmer, 2001). From the dictionary it is said to be a system or organization that provides for a basic public need. Distribution is the process of making a product or service available for use or ...
Similarly, other players in the Content world can use this solution to provide Consumers direct access to their libraries, bypassing the Internet bottlenecks. Content Aggregators, Movie Studios, Karaoke producers, News Channels, Video-rental chains – all will welcome a chance to provide direct, fast, high quality streaming of their content to the end users. To enable this, the service provider must guarantee to the Content Provider: An always-on availability, not the best-effort Internet standard, because they pay for it. Security and protection for the content, so it not abused or stolen Self-management of the content distribution by the Content Provider.
RAGATM Content Delivery Framework – the ideal solution. The RAGATM framework is a robust, carrier-grade, broadband platform designed exclusively to host, manage, and stream IP based content. It’s main features include: High Throughput of over 2 Gbps Scalability on-board, and to very large capacities through a distributed topology. End-to-End management of content distribution from the content provider to the end user terminal High Availability, no single point of failure. Security to protect the platform and the content Simply put, it is a combination of Caching, Hosting, and Smart IP QoS management to speed-up and move content from it’s source, through the network backbone to the end user. This is done with security and address management, to assure delivery.
Managing Content Distribution by the Content Providers unique tool is provided, enabling content providers to automate and control distribution of their content via a simple, ‘drag and drop’ interface. The platform supports multiple concurrent content providers, each having a view of his contracted resources. Content is first routed, through the network backbone, to a central RAGATM server. From there, based on the policy defined by the Content Distributor, it is copied to any number of distributed platforms, using the broadband backbone of the network. This two-tier distribution paradigm allows a single broadcast of specific title from the content providers library, in a single session. The network takes care of the dissemination of the title.
The Term Paper on Channels of Distribution
In the uncertain fluctuating market of today, it is essential for a company to hold on and face those uncertainties in order to survive. Consumers can be an aid for a company’s survival, thereby it is essential for consumers to get the goods of a company whenever and however they need them. Here is where distribution channels come in and give hand. “Channels of distribution are the ...
If such a paradigm was not possible, the content provider would need to create multiple sessions for the same title, sending it to each of the RAGATM platforms in the network. Personalization and user profiling Each user can provision his / her profile and control preferences through a browser based interface. Sophisticated API’s to integrate new user applicationsAPI’s are built of atoms, providing simple interface commands to any external application. The advantage of this approach is faster-to-market launch of new services.
