Intelligent Networks: Principles and Applications (IEE Telecommunications Series, 46)
Institution of Engineering and Technology | ISBN: 0852969775 | 2007-12 | PDF | 832 pages | 2 Mb
The purpose of this book is to give some practical insight into how public
telecommunications networks have advanced from the old days of offering just
simple telephony services to becoming today’s ‘intelligent’ networks. Telephone
companies now operate in an intensely competitive environment, and so they have
to constantly struggle to find more ways to encourage customers to make ever more
use of the installed network equipment. Network operators are therefore constantly
looking for new services that will make the telephone system more attractive, easier
to use and perhaps even more indispensable for its users. The overall goal is of
course to increase the revenue-producing ability of the existing phone systems. The
aim of the ‘intelligent network’ (IN) has always been to help the telephone
companies achieve just this, but in a rigorously standard manner, so that network
equipment from different suppliers can work together. IN seeks to provide the
internal network rearrangements that give the agility and flexibility needed to bring
almost any new services into life very quickly.