Voice is not dead! The last few years have seen a dramatic increase in the total amount of time that people spend talking to each other. What is changing is how they communicate. A voice call can now take many forms, from a simple telephone call on a home phone, to a call placed on a mobile phone, to a call made on a PC entirely handled by the Internet. Ensuring that a core network can evolve with users' voice needs is critical to future success.

Sharing pictures taken by the camera in a mobile phone. Having a business conference where the participants are on different kinds of phones and PCs around the world and can still see the same presentation. Watching your favorite TV show while riding on the train. All of these new services require that your core network be built to handle innovative multi-media solutions.

The Internet has grown to be a key component of everyday life for many people. Having to restrict the use of the Internet to when they are at home or the office has become a major obstacle to fulfilling the promise of the Internet. Full, high-speed access from mobile handsets opens up new revenue sources, but only if the underlying network is built to support existing and emerging standards.

Voice, data, multi-media, Internet, 3rd party applications and custom solutions. Fixed networks, mobile networks, 2G, 3G, 4G. Successfully managing and operating the increasingly complex networks of today is expensive. Managing these operating expenses can make the difference between profitability and decline and Service Providers who take a system-wide approach to this challenge are well rewarded.

Too often, the signaling portion of a Service Provider's network is ignored until there are problems. In fact, this is one area where substantial cost reductions can be achieved, overall reliability can be enhanced and the foundation can be laid for providing increased revenues through new services.