Service provision : technologies for next generation communications / / edited by Kenneth J. Turner, Evan H. Magill, David J. Marples

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813379103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2004
• ISBN: 9786610274987; 9781280274985; 1280274980; 9780470020494; 0470020490; 9780470020500; 0470020504
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
• Collana: Wiley series in communications networking & distributed systems
• Altri autori (Persone): TurnerKenneth J; MagillE (Evan); MarplesDavid John
• Disciplina: 621.382
• Soggetti: Telecommunication systems; Computer networks
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-358) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Service Provision; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I: Network Support for Services; 1 Introduction and Context; 1.1 Communications Services; 1.2 Network Support for Services; 1.3 Building and Analyzing Services; 1.4 The Future of Services; 2 Multimedia Technology in a Telecommunications Setting; 2.1 Definition of Multimedia; 2.2 Market Drivers for Multimedia; 2.2.1 User expectations; 2.2.2 Need for new revenue streams; 2.2.3 Effect of the Internet; 2.2.4 Content; 2.2.5 Increasing mobility; 2.2.6 Converged networks; 2.2.7 Charging for multimedia services; 2.2.8 Public network performance2.2.9 Ensuring Quality of Service (QoS); 2.3 Standards for Multimedia Services; 2.3.1 International Telecommunications Union (ITU); 2.3.2 Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); 2.3.3 International Organization for Standardization (ISO); 2.3.4 The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA); 2.3.5 Proprietary standards; 2.4 ; Multimedia Services and their Constituent Media Components; 2.4.1 Media components; 2.4.2 Attributes of a multimedia connection; 2.4.3 Examples of multimedia services; 2.5 Interworking between Multimedia and Traditional Voice; 2.6 Terminal Equipment and User Interfaces2.7 The Future; 3 Call Processing; 3.1 The Beginnings of Call Processing; 3.2 Key Attributes of Call Processing Systems; 3.2.1 User and network interfaces; 3.2.2 Number translation and route selection; 3.2.3 User subscription data; 3.2.4 Resource and switch control; 3.2.5 Generation of call recording data; 3.3 Switch Architectures and Call Models; 3.3.1 Half call model; 3.3.2 Three segment model; 3.3.3 Multi-segment model; 3.3.4 Mobile switches; 3.3.5 Implementation of call models; 3.4 Switch-Based Services; 3.4.1 PSTN services; 3.4.2 ISDN services; 3.4.3 Feature interaction3.5 Call Processing for Intelligent Networks; 3.5.1 Triggering; 3.5.2 Service switching; 3.5.3 The IN and feature interaction; 3.5.4 The IN and mobility; 3.6 Softswitches; 3.6.1 Softswitch definition; 3.6.2 Capabilities; 3.6.3 Developments; 3.7Future; 4 Advanced Intelligent Networks; 4.1 History of the Intelligent Network (IN/AIN); 4.2 Intelligent Network Architecture; 4.2.1 AIN and ITU-T IN architectures; 4.2.2 Differences between AIN (USA) and ITU-T (International) Intelligent Network architectures; 4.3 Components of IN Service Delivery; 4.3.1 Service Switching Point4.3.2 Service Control Point; 4.3.3 Intelligent Peripherals (Specialized Resource Points); 4.4 Intelligent Network Services; 4.4.1 Service examples; 4.4.2 ITU-T CS 1 services; 4.5 Assessment of Intelligent Networks; 4.6 Future of Intelligent Networks; 5 Basic Internet Technology in Support of Communication Services; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Overview; 5.1.2 The Internet standardization process; 5.2 Transport Service Quality in the Internet; 5.2.1 Plain old IP; 5.2.2 Integrated Services; 5.2.3 Differentiated Services; 5.2.4 Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS); 5.3 Internet Telephony
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides the first overview of the service technologies available to telecoms operators working in a post-convergence world. Previous books have focused either on computer networks or on telecoms networks. This is the first to bring the two together and provide a single reference source for information that is currently only to be found in disparate journals, tool specifications and standards documents.In order to provide such broad coverage of the topic in a structured and logical fashion, the book is divided into 3 parts.The first part looks at the underlying network suppor