OXFORD

English for

Telecoms

Tom Ricca-McCarthy Michael Duckworth

and Information Technology

Contents

TOPICS

PAGE UNIT TITLE

USEFUL LANGUAGE AND STRUCTURES

Convergence in technology Convergence in business A converged future

Mobile devices

К H H H

4 U Convergence in Telecoms and IT

Mobility

14

Mobile technology in retail

Software

21

Networking

30

location-based services

The software development process Software solutions Project management

Global infrastructure Enterprise networking Network management

Talking about change

Degiees of piobability in the future

Recommending Explaining in simple letrnS

Future consequences Assessing options lime periods

Sequencing Relative pronouns

I

39 H Data centres and security

Data Centres Information security Banking security

Talking about imaginary situations {jiving instructions

ManagedserviceS Service Level Agreements NegotiatinganSIA

Television Media start-ups Website usability

Healthcare Surveillance

48 Services

N M N

Media

56

Society

66

Technology adoption in society

Compelling adjectives 1 he language of negoLiaLing

Assessing businesses Describing place

The passive Opinions

PAGE APPENDIX

75 Partner Files

79 Answer key

86 Transcripts

STARTER

Convergence in Telecoms and IT

Work with a partner. Make a list of all the things some of the latest mobile devices can replace. Look at the screen of the device be low for ideas.

UNIT 1 Convergence in Tclccoins and T i 5

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Cowergence ia creating new ouairesaee ard forcing exlatlng bueineEses to Adapt quickly or die. We tm seeing the convergence of teJecommunicationa, IT t. Media; the convergence of tlxed & mobile aervlcea алЗ convergence at device level. All of these t/ends ere creating new markets and makldg other equipment, products, aegises and even whole companies rapidly obsolete. For technology manufacturers or service provfdors, deciding which markets to your future on bccomcs a challenge v/flh serous consequences. ShoiAi БТ or AT&T provide home TV services to replace 1hoir declining telephony revenues? Should Kodak i«1ogreic a roobife pho^e inlo Ha cameras orfusl give up?

Does Microsoft slill need to sell boxed software v/Ьеп you can download epplicattona onto a enter» pnone? Does everyone have to have a mobile oflerirvg or nave no <uiure? When the communicatjon of voice ia juet another software application whet do equipment manufacturers like Nortel or Alcatel-Lucent do? Cookie Just does search, rfghl? СоН1а1олз wllhtn the telecome. IT end media sectors are occurring now on a dairy btsla. Like any busy crossr«ids. there ire going to be near rnleras and head-on craEhee. Да ever, the survivors will be tfie cojnpames that understood their customers, and are egile enough to quickly respond to all this change.

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Discuss the questions with your partner.

Write a comment in response to this blog post-

Complete the table below with the names of the companies that provided you with the different services In the past and in the present. Then try to predict which company might provide the services in the future.

Internet

tv

Fixed phone Mobile phone

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In seven years

When you have finished, compare your answers with your partner.

TECH TUTORIAL 3G,4G

New generations of mobile phone standards, allowing mobile network operators to offer advanced services Ethernet

A very high bandwidth data ne* working technology used by companies in LANs and increasingly WANs GSM = Global System for mobile communications A worldwide standard for mobile phones making phones from one operator compaliblewith a different о pe rotor i n a n oth e г сои nt ry MPLS = Multi-Protocol Label .Switching Л data networking protocol and service That can carry differeritr<indsоftratfiс voke,data,videoetc,

Open source

Software that is made available to developers

and users, licensed ко encourage re-use

without charge.

SaaS = Software as a Service

Wi-Fi

A technology providiwireless transmissiоn of data over a short range (for example» in a house or office) Wi-Max

A technology providing wireless transmission of high speed data over a large area (for exam pie, a city)

6 | U N IT 1 Сдое где псе i n Telecom s and l Г

Read the magazine article about trends in Telecoms and IT, Match the Industry leader to their area of expertise.

1. Peter Wilson

2. Jenny Lane ■} San jay Ravi

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State of play

To celebrate our 10^,h anniversary, we invitee Industry leaders to share their thoughts ahout the changing world of Telecoms and IT. To 1ind out what they think, read on...

Peter Wilson

The world is now plugged in, and countries are connected up using a mixture of terrestrial networks, undersea cables, satellite and micro­wave communications, Wi-Max and Wi-Fi, GSM and 3G. The move from packet-based services to the internet protocol means everyone expects to communicatevo ice. data and vi d eo f ro m anywhere to anywhere, globally. The availability of wide area data services s uc h as MPLS and Eth ernet have spread all over the world, allowing companies to manage and communicate with their operations wherever they may be.

A reason for this has boon the fall in bandwidth costs, and broadband is getting cheaper and cheaper. Services can now deliver tens or even hundreds of megabits of bandwidth into individual homes for much less money than a 64Kb line that a whole factory might have used to run its operation only a few years ago.

Jenny Lane

In 1965 Gordon Moore stated that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every two years. And that has more or less remained true sinco then. As wo write, a single chip can hold about 1 billion transistors each making 3 billion binary calculations per second.

There has'been a huge increase in the volume of data and data storage capacity required fo; this; secondly, there has been a significant decrease in the size and power consumption of hardware and finally manufacturing costs arc falling significantly. The result is that there are more and more powerful computers in our lives, and even handhold dcvices can store gigabytes of data holding Ihousands of MP3 music files or hundreds of films.

Sanjay Ravi

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The internet is changing the way we access, buy and use applications. We go online and download the software we want onto our computer, like any other digital product. Increasingly we don't even have the software on our hardware, but visit an internet site and use that application as a service. The use of this Software as a Service {SaaS} model means that we may not need s uch powerfu I computers i n the future.

We have seen the impact of off- sho/ing and the rise of India as the world contre of software development and application management. We are a5so seeing some of the smartest applications and services coming out of people's bedrocms: more and more experts are producing Open source software, which is becoming more and more popular, creating a real threat to the big corporations.

LI N IT 1 Conve r^en ce in T-eleCQTn^ э rid IT I

Read the text again. Say If Ihe following statements are TRUE (T) or FALSE (F) according to the text.

According to Peter Wilson:

1. most countries are connected up with undersea cables.

2. many countries have unreliable mobile phone networks,

3. recently bandwidth costs have risen d ramatally. According to Jenny Lane:

4. Moore's predictions have heen fairly accurate. \

5. a typical chip can now hold 3 billion transistors.

6. holli data storage capacity and power consumption have gone up. Accordmgto 5anjay Ravi;

7. fewer people are going to computer stores to buy software.

8. SaaSwill require ordinary users to have more powerful computers,

9. access download SO

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   software development needs the support of a hig corporation to succeed.

Match thewardson the left wi th the word s 0 n th e ri ght to m ake pal rs of wo r<f s tha t of te n go together. The word on the left must go with all three words m the set. Seethe example.

a chip, wafer, valley

b an application, a network, an account

с online, offline, on holiday

d phone, telephony, broadband

e a file, an image, a demo version

Com plete th e sentences «sin g pa 1 rs of worts f rom exerci se 6. Ma ke а пу с ha nges th at a re necessary.

1. Everyone has , sopayphonesare becoming redundant.

2. Many internet entrepreneurs from in California are now turning their

attention to alternative forms of energy.

3. Before you buy the program, you can ju st to see how you like it.

4. With a mobile broad hand connection, you сеп anytime and anywhere.

5. Internet banking allows users to ... and check their balances.

6. How many transistors can you fit onto a ?

TALKING ABOUT CHANGE

We con use the present continuous to talk about change.

Manufacturing costs are foiling significantly

More and more experts ore producing Open source software.

We often use one or rnoro comparative adjectives to talk about change.

Broadband is gelling cheaper and cheaper.

Ope n source software is becoming more and more popular.