Next Generation Intelligent Networks -- Contents vii -- Preface xiii -- Acknowledgments xv -- Chapter 1 Introduction 1 -- 1.1 The telephone network 2 -- 1.2 Computer communications 6 -- 1.3 Mobile networks 10 -- 1.4 Text purpose and overview 13 -- 1.5 Possible reading tracks 19 -- Chapter 2 Intelligent networks 23 -- 2.1 SS7 24 -- 2.2 IN standards 29 -- 2.3 Service plane 31 -- 2.4 Global functional plane 33 -- 2.5 Distributed functional plane 39 -- 2.6 Physical plane 47 -- 2.7 CS-2 53 -- 2.8 CS-3 and CS-4 65 -- 2.9 Implementing IN 70 -- Chapter 3 IN and the Internet 75 -- 3.1 IP, the Internet, and the Web: Defining terms 76 -- 3.2 Intelligence on the Internet 84 -- 3.3 Interaction between the Internet and IN 102 -- 3.4 Managing services via the Internet 113 -- Chapter 4 The mobile dimension 119 -- 4.1 Cellular networks 121 -- 4.2 GSM 122 -- 4.3 GPRS 129 -- 4.4 CAMEL 135 -- 4.5 Internet in the mobile environment 147 -- 4.6 Mobile-specific services 154 -- 4.7 3G mobile networks 165 -- References 178 -- Chapter 5 Distributing intelligence 179 -- 5.1 Parlay 180 -- 5.2 OSA 185 -- 5.3 Using OSA 192 -- 5.4 Implementing OSA 199 -- 5.5 OSA applications 205 -- References 209 -- Chapter 6 Telecommunications middleware 211 -- 6.1 Telecommunications information-networking architecture 212 -- 6.2 TINA service architecture 219 -- 6.3 TINA network-resource architecture 223 -- 6.4 The future of TINA 230 -- 6.5 OMG 233 -- 6.6 TDTF 238 -- Chapter 7 Service creation 245 -- 7.1 From SIBs to objects 246 -- 7.2 Javain telecommunications 253 -- 7.3 JAIN 259 -- 7.4 CPL 274 -- 7.5 Feature interactions 282 -- References 288 -- Chapter 8 Evolution scenarios 289 -- 8.1 Next generation networks 290 -- 8.2 Convergence or divergence? 293 -- 8.3 IN evolution 296 -- 8.4 If it ain't broke, why fix it? 298 -- Appendix A: Standards 301 -- Appendix B: Web sites 313 -- Glossary 315.

Bibliography 329 -- About the author 331 -- Index 333.