The telecommunications information networking architecture (TINA) Consortium is an international collaboration aiming at defining and validating an open architecture for telecommunication services for the broadband, m...
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The telecommunications information networking architecture (TINA) Consortium is an international collaboration aiming at defining and validating an open architecture for telecommunication services for the broadband, multimedia, and information era. The architecture is based on distributed computing, object orientation, and other concepts and standards from the telecommunications and computing industries. This paper provides an introduction to TINA.
The telecommunications information networking architecture (TINA) servicearchitecture and development concepts are emerging as products in the industrial market. TINAcompliant or TINA like platforms are beginning to b...
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The telecommunications information networking architecture (TINA) servicearchitecture and development concepts are emerging as products in the industrial market. TINAcompliant or TINA like platforms are beginning to be offered by telecom vendors and the use of TINAbased systems is becoming a reality. Much of the validation and experimentation work to realize theimplementation of such systems has been successfully carried out in the advanced communicationstechnologies and services (ACTS) program and ACTS research projects have provided valuable researchresults and practical experience in developing, deploying and operating such systems.
The highly competitive communications markets of the future should encompass mechanisms for enabling users to find and associate with the most appropriate retailers, i.e. those offering at a certain time period adequa...
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The highly competitive communications markets of the future should encompass mechanisms for enabling users to find and associate with the most appropriate retailers, i.e. those offering at a certain time period adequate quality services in a cost efficient manner. This paper presents such mechanisms. Our starting point is the definition of a business case, through which the role of the best candidate-retailer selection problem is explained. In the sequel, the problem is analysed and the identified sub-problems are concisely defined, mathematically formulated and solved. The identified components of the best candidate-retailer selection problem involve the evaluation of the quality of a retailer offer and the reduction of the set of candidate retailers by exploiting learning from experience notions. In the final sections, results are provided and concluding remarks are made. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
The ever-growing popularity of the Internet is dramatically changing the landscape of the communications marketplace. The two separate worlds of the Internet and telecommunications are converging. The respective advan...
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The ever-growing popularity of the Internet is dramatically changing the landscape of the communications marketplace. The two separate worlds of the Internet and telecommunications are converging. The respective advantages of the two environments are being integrated to fulfill the promise of the information super-highways. In this paper, we examine the impact of the Internet on the main telecommunication architectures, namely the IN, the TMN and TINA. There are two new tendencies for implementing telephony services in combination with the Internet: running part of the control system over the Internet, or conveying both the user data and the control information over the Internet. We examine these two tendencies, and elaborate on possible ways of salvaging the best parts of the work achieved by the TINA-Consortium in the Internet context. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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