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IP and the Intelligent Network: Services, Architectures, Deployments, and Convergence Drivers
Format: Softcover, 298 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-88-9
Price:
$495
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OVERVIEW
The emergence of the intelligent network (IN) changed the public-switched telephone network (PSTN) forever. The IN offered new ways of using the PSTN and raised the standard of what users would expect from it.
Now, the extraordinary growth of the Internet and the extensive deployment of fiber-optic networks have caused an important shift in the communications industry—the movement away from traditional circuit-switched voice networks toward packet-switched networks based on Internet protocol (IP). Opportunities to use bandwidth more efficiently and reduce transport and switching costs are also driving this evolution.
With the move toward packet networks, the International Engineering Consortium is pleased to announce IP and Intelligent Network: Services, Architectures, Deployments, and Convergence Drivers. This comprehensive report examines the role the IN will play in this network evolution.
While the IN allows for a variety of voice features and offers Internet-based connections to control and enhance voice, data, and video, IP provides a tremendous amount of efficiency and an important opportunity for new services that would not be possible with a circuit-switched network. The tremendous infrastructure that exists with the IN provides a strong base to get those services to existing customers and to provide a foundation for developing many of the protocols in the packet world's products.
IP and the Intelligent Network examines the infrastructure of the IN and its usefulness with IP and discusses multiple examples for deriving value in a converged network space. It attempts to answer the following questions as well: What services will be offered with a converged network? What will this network look like? What are the deployment opportunities and challenges? What does a converged network mean for the future? This new report relies on the real-world experience of industry leaders to help companies gain the knowledge and insight necessary to succeed in this dynamic industry.