Service selection in the access network

As users become more and more mobile and broadband access is being deployed at an ever-increasing pace, new ways of deploying services can be examined. Next to ways for accessing global services (portals), approaches are described to offer local services, based on the knowledge of the user´s location in the nodes of the access network. Increasing the intelligence of the access nodes, localized, advanced and personalized services can be offered. Several methods are discussed to implement these local services, in order of increasing functionality