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The Problem With Service Level Agreements
White Paper A good Service Level Agreement (SLA) should provide a sound basis for two parties to work together. If it is done well, everyone knows what to expect and there are well defined incentives for putting things right when a problem occurs. [09 Aug 2006]
Service Levels Are Bunkum
White Paper Why do Service Level Agreements frequently achieve the opposite effect to that intended? Do the parties really understand what risk they are taking on in signing up to these contracts? This paper looks at some of the wilder myths and fundamental... [09 Aug 2006]
Effect of Spreading in an Outdoor MIMO-OFDM System
White Paper European terrestrial digital television (DVB-T), digital audio broadcasting (DAB) and digital radio mondiale (DRM). This paper considers transmission over an outdoor broadband MIMO channel where channel state information is present at the receiver... [01 Nov 2004]
Bluetooth as a 3G Enabler
White Paper The next generation of cellular telephony provided by the evolution of existing digital systems (GPRS, EDGE and HSCSD) or through the development of new ones (UMTS / IMT 2000) will offer the user greater flexibility and capability than ever before. [01 Mar 2004]
Digital Radio Mondiale Field Trials and Their Impact on System Design and Operation
White Paper This paper introduces the new digital radio system Digital Radio Mondiale from an operational point of view. The system offers a range of new transmission parameters that put the broadcaster into the position of adapting the digital output signal... [24 Feb 2004]
Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM): Compliance Testing and Specification Validation
White Paper Digital Radio Mondiale is a new system for digital broadcasting below 30MHz. The DRM Consortium has now completed work on the technical standard which describes the "Signal on Air". This is an open standard which has now been published by ETSI as a... [24 Feb 2004]
Intercai Paper - "What John Wants"
White Paper As we move through the Information Age, the demand for broadband telecommunications is rising rapidly. So much so that it is currently running well ahead of supply. There are a number of reasons for this, one of the main ones being that the cost of... [24 Feb 2004]
Electronic Marketplaces - B2B Trading
White Paper This paper is based on one written and presented for Commerce One by David Hughes at the Second International Conference of the International Public Association for Promotion of Electronic Trade (IPAPET) in Minsk, entitled Electronic Trade in the... [24 Feb 2004]
Making the Most of the Wired World - Installing and Operating High Capacity Networks
White Paper The telecommunications business has grown rapidly over the last ten years. So much, so that it has placed enormous demands on the basic transmission systems that get signals from A to B. Several companies have risen to the challenge and stated that... [24 Feb 2004]
DSL & Broadband Access Networks: Is Competition Bad for Competition?
White Paper Everybody wants DSL: governments see broadband access as the one key enabler of the e-business economy, competing telecom operators as the way to tap the under-served and potentially huge SME market, ISPs as the way out of the "free-for-all... [24 Feb 2004]
The Best of 'Reader Comments': Smartcards, e-marketplaces and Apple
Comment Market research that Intercai Mondiale has conducted among potential users of exchanges indicates that both transaction and fixed fee based tariffs are tenable. Following a story about future smartcard charges, followed up on last week's Behind the... [06 Oct 2000]
