The Intelligent Network: Current Technologies, Applications, and Operations

Format: Softcover, 382 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-43-9
Price: $396

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. IN Basics

• Fundamentals of IN and IN Capabilities

2. Business Issues and Case Studies

• The Business Case for Intelligent Network Platform Investments: Service-Specific Challenges
• Delivering High-Value Services to Make a Buck and Save a Buck
• Small-Business and Residential Opportunities for IN–Based Services
• Intelligent Network Capabilities: Challenges for the Exchange Carrier
• A View of Advanced Intelligent Network Wholesaling
• Modeling AIN: A User's Perspective
• Intelligent Networks: Competitive Advantage
• Value-Added Wholesale IN Services: Dipping for Dollars
• An AIN Success Story
• Mass-Marketing of AIN Services

3. IN Architectures and Operations

• Optimizing Service Control Point Architectures to Achieve High Throughput with Minimum Response Time
• AIN Billing Issues Update
• Deployment of TINA Technology on a Pan-European ATM Network
• Intelligent Networks and TINA–Migration and Interworking Issues
• Commonality of AIN across Network Elements
• Intelligent Internet: Value-Added Services by Interworking between Network Technologies
• Network Signaling for the Next Generation of IN Platforms
• Security Concerns for IN Architectures and Services
• AIN Usage Measurements for Billing
• The Marriage of Two Challenges: Technical Considerations of Open AIN
• A New Paradigm for Network Intelligence: From Bundled to Open and Programmable Systems
• Intelligent Peripheral Realization
• The Elements and Description of a Number Portability Administration Center Service-Management System (NPAC SMS)
• Intelligent Peripherals and Service Nodes: Distributed Intelligence for Seamless Service
• Internet Access to the Intelligent Network
• Object-Oriented Realization of a Broadband Intelligent Network Architecture
• Enhancing Enterprise Voice Networks with Intelligent Network Technology

4. Interoperability and Local Number Portability Issues

• Regulatory and Public-Policy Issues Driving Number Portability Deployment
• Interoperability: Spanning the Chasm
• Local Number Portability: Operations Impact and Architecture
• Interoperability and Ubiquity: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
• Wireless Local Number Portability
• Unbundling the Network: A Vendor's Perspective
• An Interexchange Carrier Perspective on LNP
• Portability outside of the Rate Center (PORC)
• Local Number Portability: A Canadian Regulatory Perspective
• Local Number Portability: A Service-Bureau Approach

5. Standards

• Current Status of National and International IN Standards and TINA–C
• The TIA Wireless Intelligent Network Standards: Drivers, Status, and Synergies
• ITU–T IN Standards—International Perspective and Standards Convergence

6. Service Development, Applications, and Management

• Integrated Wireless and Wireline Services
• Java and Its Use on the Motorola Service Node Platform
• Third-Party Programming: A New Outlet for Service Creation
• Troubleshooting Intelligent Wireless/Wireline Networks
• Mobility in an Intelligent Network: How Does Donna Get What She Wants?
• Service Management: Overall Context, Business Drivers, and Challenges
• AIN Mass-Market Services: Provisioning and Maintenance Issues