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Standards acceleration is a trend that presents both opportunities and challenges for most companies in the communications sector. This paper uses examples taken from multiple business process and information standards, along with the best practice recommendations from several standards development organizations (SDOs), to illustrate the effects of standards acceleration, report on strategies that allow companies to intelligently use and combine standards from multiple sources.... More Info

MATRIXX Subscriber Policy and Charging System (SPCS) integrates policy management and charging to improve the customer experience by giving subscribers granular views and controls on service usage and spending. It leverages subscriber balances, products, pricing, customer status, and preferences to make policy decisions that are intuitive and valuable for customers.... More Info

\"The Next Generation Data Center Opportunity\" - an industry analysis report by New Paradigm Resources Group, Inc. examines the strategies service providers are employing to capitalize on this growing opportunity.... More Info

NPRG's \"Low Latency Services Market Report\" examines this emerging market. It discusses how service providers are meeting those needs, how they compete with other providers to win market share, where the opportunities are for service providers and equipment vendors, and what factors and dynamics are shaping and driving this young market.... More Info

Cable system operators are succeeding in their foray into telecom's business services market, particularly since 2005. Businesses spend tens of billions on communications services every year, and cablecos have the network depth and product offerings to reevaluate their customer strategies and marketing tactics, and vendors are seeing a while new category of operator customers who need their products to power \"business-grade capabilities.\"... More Info