Pipeline Publishing, Volume 4, Issue 4- Editorial: Calendar

Pipeline Publishing, Volume 4, Issue 4

	This Month's Issue:
	Maintaining Network Health

Editorial Opportunities:
Editorial Calendar

• 1 Opportunities
• 2 Distribution
• 3 Ed Calendar
• 4 Submissions

Editorial Calendar 2007

January: New Challenges for Service Providers

As the New Year kicks-off, Pipeline will explore the opportunities and obstacles that lie ahead for service providers, vendors, and end-users. This issue will delve into how the every changing network can impact the bottom line and how OSS leadership is easing the technology shift.

February: Delivering the Total Package

Following 2006, the year of mergers and acquisitions OSS vendors are positioning themselves with an expanded footprint. This issue will explore the best-of-breed vs. best of suite solutions and look at actual implementations to see who really has the goods, including: CRM, Fault Management, Inventory, Service Fulfillment, Billing, and Activation software suppliers.

Special event coverage: IIR Telecom’s Network Convergence - Building the NGN; and COMPTEL Plus Spring 2007

March: Beyond Quad-Play: XoIP

The race to an IP infrastructure has been driving the fixed and mobile telecommunications market. Pipeline will look at how service providers are meeting the unique OSS challenges this created by IMS is deployed and the delivery of any application over a mixed network to virtually any device.

Special event coverage: Next Gen OSS Integration Summit; and CTIA Wireless

April: Come Together:
Fixed-Mobile Convergence

The April issue of Pipeline will report on the impact of regulation on service provider operations. Pipeline will investigate how policies from Sarbanes-Oxley to CALEA are driving the adoption of OSS software such as inventory, lawful intercept and network monitoring software by some of the world’s largest carriers.

May: Come Together:
Fixed-Mobile Convergence

The May issue of Pipeline will take a hard look at communications standards and the bodies that create them. Pipeline will uncover which standards are truly are being adopted and actually impacting the operations of major telecommunications carriers and expose those that are not.

Special event coverage: TeleManagement World, Nice

"Pipeline invites those from all walks of the OSS industry to submit ideas for articles that are timely and relevant..."

July: Fixed Mobile Convergence

This issue of Pipeline is dedicated to covering the convergence of fixed and mobile networks. July’s Pipeline will look into IMS deployments, and see how these two worlds can coexist.

Special event coverage: NXTComm

July: Maintaining Network Health

In July, Pipeline explores how OSS can impact customer satisfaction and reduce customer churn. Pipeline will look at how today’s software solutions are helping deliver Automated Service Fulfillment, Customer Self-Service, Empowered Customer Service, Targeted Application Bundles and other techniques used by service providers to help retain customers and attract customers.

August: Maintaining Network Health

In August, Pipeline will look at ways OSS is automating the business and operations of communications carriers. Pipeline will also examine the possibility of a fully Autonomic OSS and Network as the future of network operations and business support systems.

September: Maintaining Network Health

July’s Pipeline looks at ways service providers can maintain a healthy network. This issue will explore best practices and methods of fault management, testing and measurement, and the possibility of self-healing networks.

Special event coverage:
Next Gen OSS/BSS Summit

October: Keeping Promises

This issue of Pipeline will explore the world of telecom relationships from partnerships between mobile carriers and equipment manufacturers, OSS vendors, and the end customers. This month promises to reveal the relationship between suppliers and service providers and how that impacts the user experience.

Special event coverage:
Broadband World Forum Europe
COMPTEL Plus Fall Convention and Expo
FTTH Conference – Expo 2007
Optimizing OSS

November: The Shifting Market

This issue of Pipeline delves into the changing roles of service providers due to new virtual service offerings, customer self service, and the growing prominence of alternative service providers.

Special event coverage:
TM Forum Management World Americas

December: Trends

• 1 Opportunities
• 2 Distribution
• 3 Ed Calendar
• 4 Submissions

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