Operations strategy for an advanced intelligent network platform

In order to offer the service provider the maximum flexibility of the advanced intelligent network (AIN) the platform architecture choice must be consistent with the operation, administration, and maintenance (OA&M) strategy across the AIN nodes. Such a strategy is compounded in complexity by the possibility of services being deployed on various nodes in the network and also being developed by different vendors. The authors present a conceptual view of platform and service architecture within the OA&M boundaries. The OA&M boundaries dictate the development of an operations strategy for AIN