Service Provision
Technologies for Next Generation Communications
Wiley Series in Communications Technology
1. Edition April 2004
386 Pages, Hardcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Short Description
Communications Services: The Technology of Call Control 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.
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 support for services and aims to explain the technology that makes the user-visible services possible. This section covers multimedia networking, both traditional (legacy) and future (softswitch) call processing, intelligent networks, the Internet, and Wireless networks.
Part 2 deals with how these services may be analysed and managed. Chapters cover topics such as commercial issues, service management, quality of service, security, standards and APIs.
Part 3 concludes the book by looking ahead at evolving technologies and more speculative possibilities, discussing the kinds of services that may be possible in the future and the technologies that will support them.
* Focuses is on how the technology supports the services, rather than on technology for its own sake
* Contributors drawn from both academia and industry (companies such as Marconi, BT, Telcordia, Cisco, Analysys) to give both theoretical and real-world perspectives
* Unique singe-reference source for a wide range of material currently found only in disparate papers, specs and documentation
* Covers brand new technologies such as JAIN, JTAPI, Parlay, IP, multimedia networking, active networks, WAP, wireless LANs, agent-based services, etc.
Preface.
PART I: NETWORK SUPPORT FOR SERVICE.
1. Introduction and Context (Kenneth J. Turner, Evan H. Magill and David J. Marples).
2. Multimedia Technology in a Telecommunications Setting (Alistair McBain).
3. Call Processing (Graham M. Clark and Wayne Cutler).
3 . 5 Call Processing for Intelligent Networks.
4. Advanced Intelligent Networks (Robert Pinheiro and Simon Tsang).
5. Basic Internet Technology in Support of Communication Services (Marcus Brunner).
6. Wireless Technology (James M. Irvine).
PART II: BUILDING AND ANALYZING SERVICES.
7. Service Management and Quality of Service (Pierre C. Johnson).
8. Securing Communication Systems (Erich S. Morisse).
9. Service Creation (Munir Cochinwala, Chris Lott, Hyong Sop Shim and John R. Wullert II).
10. Service Architectures (Gordan S. Blair and Geoff Coulson).
11. Service Capability APIs (John-Luc Bakker and Farooq Anjum).
12. Formal Methods for Services (Kenneth J. Turner).
13. Feature Interaction: Old Hat or Deadly New Manace (Evan H. Magill)?
PART III: THE FUTURE OF SERVICES.
14. Advances in Services (James T. Smith).
15. Evolving Service Technology (Peter Martin and Stephen Corley).
16. Prospects (David J. Marples, Kenneth J. Turner and Evan H. Magill).
Appendix 1. Abbreviations.
Appendix 2. Glossary.
Appendix 3. Websites.
Bibliography.
Index.
