Service creation: the real key to intelligent network revenue

Summary form only given, as follows. The main driver behind the implementation of the advanced intelligent network is the ability to quickly develop and deploy new revenue producing services. These services need to be developed for a variety of network platforms and must enable the service provider to quickly and easily modify them. Since it is highly unlikely that a meaningful standard for service creation will be developed in the near future, the only option is an architecture that allows an open implementation of the service creation environment. This will enable most, if not all, vendor products to be served. This paper proposes such an open, flexible architecture. The paper also discusses the three-fold needs that must be met by the service creation environment (SCE) for: (1) the service programmer, who has advanced programming skills and uses the SCE to create new generic functions represented by icons, (2) the service designer, who uses the above functions to create new services, using graphical point and click techniques, (3) the service provisioner, who understands the specific customer needs and enters specific data into the data file