Creating Value-Added Services and Applications for Converged Communications Networks

This book provides a comprehensive survey of current and new technologies and standards that allow operators and service providers to create and deploy value-added services in a changing world increasingly dominated by packet switched networks using the internet Protocol (IP). A follow-up to Next Generation Intelligent Networks, the main goal of this timely resource is to explain building applications and services over communications networks and how to manage them. Contents Overview: Value-Added Services in Circuit Switched Networks; Value-Added Communications Services in Packet Switched Networks; Programming Communications Applications and Services with Java; Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Distributed Service Control; Support Systems; Things to Come.