The role of TINA in the telecomms revolution

The authors argue that the arrival of broadband technology, coupled with deregulation in the marketplace, will lead to a revolution in the way telecoms services are delivered to customers. They introduce the TINA Consortium project, which aims to define a next generation Telecommunications and Information Networking Architecture (TINA). The authors believe that TINA-C´s opportunity is to become the architecture for the delivery of broadband services. They show how a next generation approach such as TINA can integrate the telecomms and Internet approaches. Conclusions for the TINA-C architecture and its adoption in the market are discussed