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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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section I: Market Drivers and Business Issues

• Advanced IP Services for the Business Sector: Opportunities for Carriers
• IN Business Services
• Wireless INternet
• Fantasia and Service Creation for the New Millennium
• The Real Benefits of IP Telephony
• Monitoring and Harnessing the Evolution of Global Technology
• PSTN/IP Convergence: A Customer and Services Perspective
• Enabling Technology for the IN Evolution and IN–Internet Integration
• Advanced Intelligent Network Partnerships in the Next-Generation Network World
• The Role of the Intelligent Network in the Next-Generation Network
• Challenges and Opportunities of IN
• Carriers Looking at the Future of AIN Should Examine Hybrid Services
• IP from a Service Provider's Perspective

Section II: Network Architectures and Solutions

• IN as a Stepping-Stone to IP
• Distributed Network Intelligence: Architectures and Protocols in the New, Converged, Next-Generation Networks
• Common API in Support of Distributed Intelligence
• Internet-Enabling the Central Office
• Service Architecture Frameworks for the IN and IP Space
• Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Terminals
• IN Solutions for Next-Generation Networks
• IP, ATM, and SONET in the Optical Network
• Evolving Network Systems to a Packet-Based Architecture
• Designing the Future Starts with Basic Building Blocks
• The Matrix: IP–Telephony Access, Transport, and Gateway Fundamentals
• Next-Generation IN Architecture Challenges

Section III: Standards and Quality of Service

• Delivering On-Demand IP Service with Guaranteed Service Quality
• Multiple Services, Multiple Protocols in Intelligent Networks: Service Interaction
• Guaranteeing Quality of Service with Next-Generation Equipment
• Carrier IP Telephony: Protocols and Standards
• Interoperability in IP Backbones
• SIP: Ready to Deploy
• Interfaces, Protocols, and APIs for the Next-Generation Converged Networks

Section IV: Worldwide Deployments

• Intelligent Network Deployment in Asia Pacific
• Intelligent Networks in Asia Pacific
• Intelligent Network Adoption in Mobile Networks in Europe
• IN in Europe: Integrating Voice and Data
• IP–Telephony Deployment
• IN in Latin America

Section V: Enhanced Services—Development, Management, and OSSs

• Next-Generation OSS for Next-Generation Services
• Open APIs for Integration of IN and Internet Services
• AIN Evolution: The Service-Management Challenge
• New Services from PSTN and IP Networks
• PSTNs and Packets Create New Services
• Development of Enhanced Services for the Next-Generation Network
• Approach for Services in Converged Networks
• The Service-Creation Process
• AIN Power Proving Critical for Messaging Services
• Deploying and Managing VoIP Services