EURESCOM services platform

This paper presents the results of the EURESCOM Project 715. In February 1999, a large team of researchers from six European public network operators completed a two year period of cooperative experiments on a TINA-based environment, called the EURESCOM Services Platform (ESP). This platform consists of a variety of CORBA implementations, hardware platforms, and operating system configurations. The team has developed various multimedia services based on a subset of TINA´s service architecture. P715 has also investigated stream management to realize the binding of audio-visual systems on the ESP. The interface uses a subset of the OMG stream service specification. The binding objects are integrated into the ESP, taking into account the TINA and OMG models for stream management to set up point-to-point bindings (H.320 and H.323) as well as multi-party binding (H.323). At present, P715 is probably one of the most important TINA test beds running between several public network operators. P715 has proposed some modification of TINA´s Ret reference point. A set of basic IDL interfaces for components in the user domain was defined and proposed for standardization within the TINA consortium. Furthermore, the experiences with the RtR/3Pty specification and implementation have been input into the appropriate TINA work group. Finally, P715 has suggested a simplified implementation of the communications session management based on the “Control and Management of Audio/Video Streams”, recently adopted by OMG