Fixed mobile convergence fmc bridges cellular networks. Purchase fixedmobile convergence and beyond 1st edition. Keys to fmcs greater value there are 3 major areas to consider towards implementing fmc. In its simplest form, fmc involves connecting the enterprise private branch exchange pbx to the cellular network, enabling cell phones to become extensions on the office telephone network. Computers and entertainment merge a hot area of convergence is computers, the internet and home entertainment.
Fixed and cable operators have a real current cost advantage over mobile operators working outsidein, but 5g may come to challenge the view that it. They are 1 network convergence, 2 operations convergence, and 3 service convergence. This structural convergence is being triggered by different architecture trends. See voip, ip on everything, ip telephony and fixed mobile convergence. The policies used for fixed mobile convergence are then considered. The driver of adoption by end users is the discount the level of fixedmobile bundling discount levels in the range of 2540% tends to imply that customers have been adopting fixedmobile bundles primarily for the saving and not for the.
On the road to 5g networks, the design trend is moving towards an aggregated. Rising productivity of the fixed mobile convergence trend in the telecommunications industry. Fixed mobile convergence fmc technology allows wireless users to seamlessly transfer calls and call features from a cellular network to a wlan and. Theres an interim step we need to do first, and thats whats becoming known as fixedmobile convergence fmc. How fixed mobile convergence will enable the growth in 5g ecosystem duration. Fixed mobile convergence is an emerging technology, which aims at integration and creation of a unified communication infrastructure from fixed and wireless mobile networks. Definition of fixed mobile convergence, the aim of fixed mobile convergence fmc is to provide fixed and mobile services with a single phone or personal device. This chapter considers first the different classes of convergence. In the perspective of 5g networks, efficient resource sharing of fixed and mobile infrastructures, called structural convergence, will be essential in the path toward an integrated fixed and. Virgin media may have an important convergent growth opportunity through mobile crossselling if its fmc solution is well executed. Fixedmobile network convergence the key role of fibre. O2 and three would be the next ones to get a serious hit. In the perspective of 5g networks, efficient resource sharing of fixed and mobile infrastructures, called structural convergence, will be essential in the path toward an integrated fixed and mobile network. A quantitative study on the value of fixedmobile network convergence has been prepared by the ftth council global alliance and is being presented at the ftth conference europe in amsterdam on 14 march 2019.
It then analyses the consumer markets and enterprise markets. Fmc is the merger of fixed and mobile communication paradigms and ims is considered as common platform for fmc granting convergence and compatibility between fixed mobile networks, multimedia and converged services support, and providing key community service enablers such as group management, presence, im. Pdf rising productivity of the fixed mobile convergence. Fixedmobile convergence sizzles as one of the hottest.
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