Network Services Investment Guide

Maximizing ROI in Uncertain Times

Mark Gaynor

306 pages, parution le 06/02/2003

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Résumé

A comprehensive valuation guide that shows how to select and manage network-based services to ensure maximum return on investment

Managing the costs and tradeoffs of implementing a rich, service-based network architecture can be extremely difficult, especially considering the fact that return on investment can plummet due to unpredictable overall market conditions. This book empowers you so that you can avoid taking too much risk for not enough return. It analyzes network-based services using an innovative new framework that links market uncertainty to the choice between distributed and centralized management structures. Gaynor clearly shows you how to benefit from this uncertainty by leveraging flexibility to optimize profitability.

He’ll help you make the right decisions about the architecture of network-based services and explains how these services should be managed so that you’ll be able to gain a strategic advantage in today’s marketplace.

Network Services Investment Guide introduces a new way for you to think about the management structure of network-based services. In order to ensure that you’ll achieve the maximum return on investment, this book:

Describes how to manage the costs and tradeoffs between distributed and centralized management structures
Presents case studies on e-mail and voice mail that demonstrate the validity of the theory
Covers network-based services such as application management, hosting, voice and data services, and the new breed of SOAP/XML Web services
Illustrates how to apply the theory by predicting how technologies such as Voice-Over-IP, Web-based applications and services, and wireless network infrastructure will evolve

Contents

Foreword: Networking Council Foreword
Chapter 1 Introduction
PART ONE: BACKGROUND, FRAMEWORK, AND THEORY
Chapter 2 Network-Based Services
Chapter 3 Internet End-2-End Argument
Chapter 4 Management Structure of Network-Based Services
Chapter 5 Intuitive View of Options Theory
Chapter 6 Market Uncertainty
Chapter 7 Theories about How to Manage Network-Based Services
PART TWO: THE CASE STUDIES
Chapter 8 Email Case Study
Chapter 9 Basic Voice Services
PART THREE: APPLYING THIS NEW THEORY
Chapter 10 Voice over IP: SIP and Megaco
Chapter 11 Coexistence of 80211 and 3G Cellular: Leaping the Garden Wall
Chapter 12 Web Applications and Services
Chapter 13 Conclusion and Advice to Readers
Appendix: A Formal Theory and eal Options-Based Model
References

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Mark Gaynor
Parution	06/02/2003
Nb. de pages	306
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	480g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471214755
ISBN13	978-0-471-21475-5