Rapid deployment of CPE-based telecommunications services

The paper describes a methodology and platform for the rapid deployment of telecommunications services based on intelligent terminal processors. The authors propose the platform approach to bypass the lengthy standardization process and the community of interest problem. The platforms are intelligent terminal equipment such as workstations with hardware and software resources. Services are defined in terms of platform resources in service description languages and deployed by transferring the service descriptions from repositories to the platforms as a part the call setup. As a demonstration of this approach, the authors are prototyping the capability of rapidly deploying services over the Internet based on an object-oriented platform developed at UC Berkeley, Ptolemy, and the prototype uses Ptolemy interpreter files as the service descriptions.