Intelligent Networks: IN/AIN Technologies, Operations, Services, and Applications

Format: Softcover, 382 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-18-8
Price: $392

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Background, Basics, and Business Issues

• Basics of AIN
• AIN Fundamentals: Background, Terms and Concepts
• Intelligent Networks: New Technology, New Opportunities
• AIN Investment Issues
• IN Supplier, Meet Your New Partner...Your Customer
• It Ain't Just Talk: Future AIN Markets and Applications in Data, Video, Operations, and Wireless

Part II: Current Networks, Applications, and Technologies

• Intelligent Network System Architectures
• AIN Third-Party Access: Network Connection and Session Control in the Information Age
• Integrating Intelligent Peripherals into the Advanced Intelligent Network
• Using AIN and IS-41 to Provide Seamless Roaming for PCS
• Computer Technology Integration
• Advantages of AIN/IN Platforms in Directory Assistance Automation Version 001
• SSP Feature Interactions with AIN
• Broadband Service Architectures: A Comparison of Alternatives
• Intelligent Network Router Applications
• Wireless Access Communications Systems for PCS/AIN Applications
• AIN Operations
• Intelligent Networks for PCS
• Responding to the Changing Telecommunication Services Market
• The Next-Generation Intelligent Peripheral
• Intelligent Network Implications of Nongeographic Numbering for the Wireless Industry
• Framework for Operations in Intelligent Peripherals

Part III: Standards, Regulations, and Public Policy

• AIN Mediated Access: A Network Provider's Perspective
• AIN Manufacturer Issues Affecting Public Policy
• Enhancement of AIN Generic Requirements for Interexchange Carriers
• GTE's Approach to AIN Functional Requirements
• Functional Model for Broadband Standards
• The Evolution of Regulatory and Third-Party Access Issues Surrounding AIN
• Status and Future Directions for Global Intelligent Network Standards

Part IV: Services Creation and Deployment

• AIN Service Creation: The Process
• Services Planning for an AIN Environment
• AIN Service-Creation Technology
• Service Testing: A Key to AIN Service Reliability
• Advanced Services via the ISUP SCP
• Creating Call-Center Solutions Using AIN Technology
• Enhancing Call Centers with Advanced 800 Services: Benefits and Risks
• AIN Global Service Management
• Rapid Service-Creation Systems
• Integrated Voice, Data, and Messaging Services
• AIN Evolution to Support High-Availability Services
• Creating New Network Capabilities: An Interexchange Carrier's Perspective
• Service Creation for Advanced Intelligent Networks Utilizing Intelligent Peripherals
• Flexible Service Activation
• AIN: A Canadian Perspective
• Personal Intelligent Communications-Users in Control
• An Environment for the Creation of Intelligent Network Services
• Work-Center Services
• The Architecture of a Service-Creation Environment

Part V: The Future Use of IN/AIN Technology

• Impacts and Issues in Implementing AIN on Emerging ATM-Based Networks and the B-ISDN
• Evolving Open Intelligent Networks for Global and Broadband Services
• Intelligent Networks to the Future
• Intelligent Network Architecture with Layered Call Model for Multimedia-on-Demand Services
• AIN Advances to Broadband