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IP and the Intelligent Network: The Road to Convergence
Format: Softcover, 344 pages
ISBN: 0-931695-03-2
Price:
$495
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OVERVIEW
The emergence of the intelligent network (IN) significantly affected the evolution of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The IN offered new ways of using the PSTN and raised users' expectations of it. As Internet protocol (IP)–based networks for data and telephony services have evolved, the character of IN development has been affected accordingly.
Rapid deployment of enhanced voice and data services is critical to achieving success in today's market, and the convergence of IP and the IN is a key enabler of that goal. As service providers move toward optical solutions in the access, metro, and core networks, the issues of network intelligence, service creation and control, provisioning, and management are becoming more pressing.
To help providers succeed in today's IP–based optical environment, the International Engineering Consortium is pleased to present IP and the Intelligent Network: The Road to Convergence. This comprehensive report examines the evolving role and nature of network intelligence and how IP and the IN will work together in the emerging next-generation network (NGN).
The IN enables a variety of voice features and provides Internet-based connections to control and enhance voice, data, and video, and IP allows new services that are not possible with a circuit-switched network. The IN infrastructure facilitates delivering those services to existing customers and provides a foundation for development of many of the protocols in the packet world's products.
IP and the Intelligent Network examines this IN infrastructure and its usefulness with IP and discusses methods to derive value in a converged network space. With its range of perspectives on the possibilities for the evolving IN, this report is a critical resource for any communications company that wants to profit on the road to convergence.