Developing distributed multimedia telecommunication applications

The emerging open services market transforms services into tradable goods. It involves users; customers; service, content, and middleware providers; and network operators. This market requires effective methods to: provide new services to meet niche market demands; support customized services; provide appropriate accounting and billing mechanisms; support personal and terminal mobility, and meet information interchange security requirements such as authorization, confidentiality, and integrity. Efficient processes will reduce investment risks and let us benefit from software and hardware product development advances. To meet these needs requires an appropriate infrastructure that supports the object oriented development of distributed multimedia telecommunication applications