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Intelligent Networks: IN/AIN Technologies, Operations, Services, and Applications
Format: Softcover, 382 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-18-8
Price:
$392
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OVERVIEW
No longer mere talk, intelligent networks (IN) offer a growing spectrum of diverse and flexible communications services. This wide-ranging volume of essays explains the fundamentals of the IN/AIN and explores the services and opportunities offered by this powerful technology.
- Introduces the reader to AIN fundamentals, terms, and concepts
- Covers new challenges for AIN services rollout
- Discusses current IN architectures and offerings being tested or offered by service providers
- Forecasts future evolution of the IN
- Addresses key business and economic challenges
- Demonstrates the business opportunities and competitive edge offered by IN/AIN applications
- Presents lessons learned by experienced industry professionals in deploying AIN systems
- Surveys current regulatory and public-policy implications of the AIN
- Discusses how today s technologies and actual experiences are helping to reduce the time to market for new services
- Explores alternatives to the AIN
- Includes an acronym guide and a detailed index that allows readers to pinpoint specific topics of interest within the volume
As the AIN moves beyond the early trial and deployment stages, the business issues faced by all players in the telecommunications chain begin to loom large. Equipment vendors, service providers, third-party application suppliers, end users, and others are searching for ways to alter their businesses radically and profitably using the IN. Designed to offer a comprehensive overview of current IN/AIN technology, this report addresses a range of issues involved in creating and offering services more quickly and efficiently via the IN.
IN/AIN service deployments have been successful thus far, yet many opportunities and challenges remain. Customers desire uniform national services, direct control over their service profiles, and more sophisticated services in a shorter period of time. Technical challenges include the management and distribution of data across the network, adequate testing of services that depend upon many interactive IN elements, and integrating third-party service providers into a seamless network platform.
Based on the findings of the IEC's ComForum on the AIN and network operations, Intelligent Networks: IN/AIN Technologies, Operations, Services, and Applications is an indispensible resource for meeting these challenges and successfully harnessing the power of IN/AIN applications.
Current network evolution is being driven by increased user demand for innovative services, greater mobility, and increased convenience. How will the AIN evolve in relation to these developments? Although experiences with the AIN have been positive to date, many critical questions remain unanswered: What factors are likely to cause acceleration of platform development? What type of network elements, interfaces, and services will the AIN migrate toward down the road? What will the next-generation intelligent peripheral look like? Intelligent Networks: IN/AIN Technologies, Operations, Services, and Applications will help readers answer questions such as these and position their organizations to compete successfully in the coming open network.