Intelligent Networks: Current Advances and Business Issues

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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Business Realities of the IN

Basics of AIN
AIN—Can It Deliver?
Economic Realities of IN
The Economics of IN
Economic Implications of New Technologies
The Business Environment of AIN: A Service Provider's Perspective
IN Solutions on a Global Basis
Marketing of IN Services
Customer-Centric Intelligent Networking
Application of AIN to Emerging Business Opportunities
Challenges and Opportunities of AIN
Intelligent Network Convergence
AIN Value Chain
The Intelligent Network Value Chain
Wholesale AIN: Concepts and Issues
Deploying AIN in the Bell Atlantic Network
Dimensioning Network Resources for IN Services

II. Standards and Regulatory Issues

Legislative and Regulatory Update: Trends and Insights
Establishing an American Intelligent Network Standard
ITU and North American IN Alignment
From IN to TINA: The Step Forward?
A View of a Future Intelligent Network

III. Current Technologies and Applications

IN Service Examples
IN Platforms and Software Technologies
Building Local Number Portability in the Intelligent Network
Taking Personal Number Service from the Lab to the Field
The Role of Speech Technology in the Intelligent Network
Intelligent Network Speech Recognition
Voice Services and Their Applications: Intelligent Network Technologies of Today and Tomorrow
An Intelligent Toolkit for the Intelligent Network
Enhanced Service Alternatives to AIN
End-User Control of IN Service Provisioning
Software Agent Technology in Intelligent Networks and Services
Service Specifications: A Critical Factor in the Success of IN Services
BellSouth's Open AIN Strategy: Implementation and Issues
Building a Reliable Intelligent Peripheral/Service Node
ASMS: A Robust Client-Programmable Service Management System
AIN Deployment

IV. Wireless and the Intelligent Network

Impact of WIN on Cellular Services
Wireless Intelligent Network: Infrastructure before Services?
A Winning Broadband Wireless Approach to Enhanced Services
IN for Non-Homogeneous Wireless Systems and Services
Integration of a Service Node into an Existing Cellular Network
The Use of IN in UMTS
AIN/HLR Services for Wireless Resellers
An Intelligent PIN Solution for Wireless Fraud
Using AIN and IS-41 to Provide Seamless Roaming for PCS

V. Operations

IN Interoperability and Integration: A Service Provider's Perspective
AIN Operations
Service Theory Collides with Service Reality
AIN Operations: The NYNEX Experience
IN Security Issues
Requirements for AIN Service Reliability
IN Interoperability and Integration: A Supplier's Perspective
IN Interoperability Testing and Analysis
Reliability Issues: Advanced Intelligent Network Subteam Final Report