The Intelligent Network Comprehensive Report 2000

Format: Softcover, 191 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-72-2
Price: $495

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section I: Business Issues and Case Studies

• Customer Care and Billing: Mission Critical
• Service-Provider API: Secure Access to Converged Networks: The Parlay API
• Winning IN Services for the Residential and Small-Business Markets
• IN Operations—Pricing Value-Added Services: Flat Rate versus Usage Sensitive
• The Future of Services from Intelligent Peripherals
• Private Customer Services in IN: The Finnet View
• The Role of the IN in an Increasingly Competitive Environment
• Billing, Operations Support Systems, and the Intelligent Network: The Investment Case for Consolidation
• Outsourcing Customer Care and Service Provisioning

Section II: Intelligent Network Architectures and Operations

• IN/IP Convergence in Services Architecture
• Managing Multiple Versions of Service Software
• Intelligent Services
• End-User Control for Intelligent Network Services
• Interoperability and Intelligent Networking
• Re-Examining the Intelligent Network
• Interconnection Values and Issues
• Web-Enabled Services for the Intelligent Network
• Local Number Portability—The Next Steps
• IN/AIN Architectural Overview and Standards
• Getting Ready to Offer Intelligent Network Services
• Future-Proofing LNP Architecture

Section III: Wireless Intelligent Netw

• The Fixed Network's Role in Mobility
• Intelligent Networking in the Mobile Environment
• Wireless and Wireline Integration: Great Expectations—Have They Been Met?
• Wireless/Wireline Integration: An Emerging Set of Solutions
• Implementing WIN for International Applications
• Info on the Go: WIN–Enabling Architecture

Section IV: Internet Protocol

• Advanced Internet Network
• The Use of the Intelligent Network in the Internet Protocol Routing Service
• IP Voice, Fax, and Video Services and Applications
• Integrating VoIP Networks into PSTN Wireless and Wireline
• Introduction to IP Telephony
• AIN: Mechanized Service Activation