INSIGNIA: a pan European trial for the intelligent broadband network architecture

Author

Prezerakos, George N. ; Salsano, Stefano ; Van der Vekens, Alexander W. ; Zizza, Fabrizio

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

Volume

36

Issue

6

fYear

1998

fDate

6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

76

Abstract

This article summarizes the work carried out within the ACTS project INSIGNIA, which is targeted at the provision of interactive multimedia services through IN and B-ISDN integration. The basic concepts regarding the integrated approach are discussed with emphasis on the functional architecture. This discussion is followed by a presentation of IN multimedia services which were created based on these principles. An overview of the real-life trials which were conducted on a pan-European basis in order to evaluate the INSIGNIA services is also given. The results of this evaluation are examined from a variety of viewpoints, including functional architecture, user and network equipment, service logic programs and applications, as well as user acceptance and network performance

Keywords

B-ISDN; intelligent networks; interactive systems; multimedia communication; ACTS project; B-ISDN; IN; INSIGNIA; functional architecture; intelligent broadband network architecture; interactive multimedia services; network equipment; network performance; pan European trial; service logic programs; user acceptance; user equipment; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Broadband communication; Costs; ISDN; Intelligent networks; Narrowband; Protocols; Space technology; Standardization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.685352

Filename

685352