Telecommunications is the key economical factor in bridging countries and cultures, speeding the economy, and synchronizing the research topics across multi-national groups and universities. This conference on telecommunications is a special event where, for the first time, the traditional advanced topics on telecommunications and the new ones on service assurance with intermittent resources are complemented by special topics on e-learning on telecommunications. The suite of events, AICT / SAPIR / ELETE 2005, held under the generic topic Telecommunications 2005 was very well perceived by the international community. The proceedings is rich and dense, covering next generation networks aspects, routing, services, security, QoS, optical networks, management, communications and multiple evaluations and improvement techniques. On the service assurance on partial with intermittent resources (SAPIR) the key topics are centered on handling and monitoring, routing, and web services in such environments. In the e-learning section (ELETE) the authors present international project-based experiments, models, and Internet and web-based methods. |