Architecting the Telecommunication Evolution: Toward Converged Network Services

Taking a standards-based approach to converged services, Architecting the Telecommunications Evolution lays a foundation for a service-oriented architecture in telecommunications. The authors begin by outlining the development of Internet telephony, focusing on how to use the respective benefits of the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the Internet to create and implement more value-added services. These two eminent specialists then examine services that originate in the Internet and take advantage of PSTN services followed by PSTN-originating services using the Internet. They conclude with a discussion on how this convergence creates smart spaces in the telecoms domain.