Value-added services in the converged network

Author

De Serres, Yves ; Hegarty, Lawrence

Volume

39

Issue

9

fYear

2001

fDate

9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

154

Abstract

Now that the local market is open to competition, incumbent local exchange carriers as well as competitive LECs must not only follow the technology curve, but find a way to ride the wave of network convergence and offer innovative value-added services if they want to maintain their market share. Over the past decade, the intelligent network has been used to support value-added services. New APIs are being designed for the creation of value-added services spanning multiple domains (wireline/wireless, voice/data, public/enterprise). These APIs will not only ease the development of value-added services, but will also open service creation to third parties

Keywords

application program interfaces; business communication; economics; intelligent networks; telecommunication services; IN; Java; competitive LEC; converged network; economic factors; intelligent network; intelligent networks; local exchange carriers; local market; market competition; network convergence; network technology; public/enterprise; public/enterprise services; service creation; technology curve; value added services; value-added services; voice/data services; wireline/wireless; Bandwidth; Environmental economics; IP networks; Intelligent networks; Optical fibers; Packet switching; Protocols; Telecommunication computing; Telecommunication services; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.948417

Filename

948417