Intelligent Networks: Current Advances and Business Issues

Format: Softcover, 378 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-28-5
Price: $392

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OVERVIEW

Intelligent network (IN) services are moving beyond technical and market trials into full production and revenue generation. As this evolution continues, business and economic issues are becoming equal in importance to technical concerns in determining the future of the IN industry. Intelligent Networks: Current Advances and Business Issues presents the real-life experiences of service providers, vendors, and telcos in IN service planning, specification, design, and implementation. The book offers an inside look at the effective marketing of IN services, as well as a thorough overview of pertinent regulatory, standards, and legislative issues. As such, the report offers concrete advice on how to make IN services a reality.

Intelligent Networks: Current Advances and Business Issues provides industry professionals with the critical, up-to-the-minute information they need to make IN a practical reality. Topics covered include the following:

• Emergence of the intelligent peripheral and service node
• Effective marketing of IN services
• Wireless and wireline integration for the IN
• Enabling technologies for IN service creation, deployment, management, etc.
• Open network architecture
• IN security and reliability
• Expectations of the IN end user
• Alternatives to the IN/AIN
• IN integrity through interoperability and integration
• Future of the IN
• Making AIN operations happen