rad Stinson, Narayan Paramesh- war, Ramki Rajagopalan. See: tp://www.awardsolutions.com/downloads/Award_solutions_UMTS_QoS_wcnc1.3_ (0801).pdf The challenges of voice-over-IP-over-wireless. Ericsson Review, 1, 2000. References and Acknowledgements Interconnect Interconnect acknowledgement: the cooperation with Hakan Äkerstedt, who participated in a group for interconnection within the European Commission, has been valuable. Hakan has in addition written the appendices on MGW dimensioning and development tracks. Implementation Structure The network structure applied in the book is called the all-access architecture, supposing a fairly complete convergence except for the access area. The convergence is partly based on layering and horizontalization. This does not mean that such development is the obvious short-term one. With the present circuit-mode voice networks still being a cash-cow, there are strong conservative forces advocating a limited convergence, initially, for economical reasons. Some references and acknowledgements are: The stupid network. David Isenberg. See: http://www.camworld.com/att.html Cooperation with Hakan Wolf who participated in ACTS (Advanced Communication Technologies and Services) Program of the European Commission CONVAIR Project. http://www.etic.be/convair/Documents/teams-cv.pdf Building the GII, Telecom Journal of Australia, 47(2), 1997. Carrier Grade Voice Over IP. Daniel Collins. McGraw-Hill, 2001. Network Evolution the Ericsson way. Erik Örnulf and Steinar Dahlin, Ericsson Review, 4, 1999. Acknowledgement: Miltos Tricopoulos assisted significantly in writing the chapters on access network, packet backbone and control network. REFERENCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR SEPARATE NETWORK PARTS Service Network Here I would like to mention contacts with Christoffer Andersson, who wrote the book GPRS and 3G Wireless Applications. See: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471414050,descCd-authorInfo. This book is one of the main references. Another contribution by Christoffer deals