The Future of IN

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A The Future of IN
Table of Contents

Topic Page

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................157

MORE ADVANCED SERVICES ........................................................158

MOBILE SPECIFIC EVENTS..................................................................................... 158

CAPABILITY SETS 2 AND 3 .............................................................159

THE LONG TERM ARCHITECTURE.................................................160

BROADBAND IN (BIN) ......................................................................161

DECENTRALIZED INTELLIGENCE ..................................................162

INTELLIGENCE ON DEMAND ..........................................................163

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INTRODUCTION
Since their creation in the early 1980s, Intelligent Networks
(INs) and Mobile Intelligent Networks (MINs) have become
major factors for operators world-wide. However, they are still
young. Over the next 10 years, it is predicted by some that INs
and MINs will grow to become the largest source of income for
operators who use it.

Telecommunications is in a constant state of change. Therefore,

it is impossible to predict exactly what stage of development the
MIN will have reached in 10 years. However, there are some key
projects currently in progress which affect the MIN. It should
also be noted that all of the following information is subject to
change.

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MORE ADVANCED SERVICES

As subscribers become more familiar with the possibilities of
MIN services, there will be increased usage and demand for
existing services. In addition, there will be an increased demand
for more complex advanced services. It is difficult to imagine
what types of services will be available in the future. However,
it can be assumed that there will be more globalization of MIN
services, more functionality available and increased operating
profits from services as experience in service management
grows.

MOBILE SPECIFIC EVENTS

One area for growth is the triggering of MIN services based on
mobile-specific events such as location updating, registration
and power on. There are many possibilities.

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CAPABILITY SETS 2 AND 3

For some time now, work has been going on in ITU-T to specify
and introduce the next generation of the Capability Set standards
for Intelligent Networks (INs). Naturally as INs world-wide
begin to mature, more functionality will need to be included. At
present, the following areas are being investigated:

• Support for multimedia calls

• Video conferencing
• Broadband services
• Standards for service creation, deployment and management
• Service data representation
• Mobility
• Inter-networking with other networks.
Any future Capability Sets will be supersets of previous CSs.
This ensures that existing CSs will not become redundant
immediately.

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THE LONG TERM ARCHITECTURE

Another area ITU-T is currently working on is the concept of
Long Term Architecture (LTA). With regard to IN, the group
called Telecommunications Information Network Architecture
Consortium (TINA-C) is of most relevance. Their work is wide-
ranging as it deals with the integration of information/computer
technologies with telecommunications technologies, including :

• Distributed telecommunications technology

• Telecommunications network management technology
• Object technology
• Broadband technology

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BROADBAND IN (BIN)
Broadband technologies are a major trend in
telecommunications. With broadband technologies such as
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), it will be possible to
create advanced interactive telecommunications services which,
up till now, have been an impossibility in present
telecommunications networks because of insufficient
bandwidth. It is expected that IN will incorporate ATM
switching technology to form Broadband IN (BIN). This could
lead to MIN services involving large data transfers.

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DECENTRALIZED INTELLIGENCE
It is foreseen that future implementation of IN (and naturally
MIN) may be based on a model with less centralized
intelligence. This “flexible intelligence allocation” will consist
of the total management of centralized services in SCPs and
distributed services in local switches or exchanges. Centralized
management can be achieved by adopting and implementing the
Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) architecture
within IN architecture. The distributed services can be ones
which are more directly associated with a subscriber line, such
as call completion to busy subscriber and calling line
identification.

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INTELLIGENCE ON DEMAND
Further into the future, it may be possible to retrieve logic or
intelligence wherever and whenever it is needed. This scenario
envisions the integration of fixed, broadband and mobile
networks into seamless telecommunications networks, the
consequences being full featured Personal Communications
Network (PCN) architectures.

In a PCN, the user’s personal service profile (the services the

user has subscribed to) would no longer be local but could be
copied on demand to the SCP nearest to the user. This would
increase the availability of services and perhaps decrease
signaling overhead in the telecommunications network.

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