An overview of the Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture

Author

Chapman, M. ; Dupuy, F. ; Nilsson, G.

Author_Institution

British Telecom Res. Labs., Ipswich, UK

Volume

8

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

141

Abstract

The Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) Consortium is an international collaboration aiming at defining and validating an open architecture for telecommunication services for the broadband, multimedia, and information era. The architecture is based on distributed computing, object orientation, and other concepts and standards from the telecommunications and computing industries. This paper provides an introduction to TINA. First, it presents an overall view of TINA, followed by a brief introduction to the main parts of the architecture, namely the computing, network, service, and management architectures. This is followed by a brief overview of interworking and migration scenarios for legacy systems. Finally, an overview of a tool-set to aid service specification and design is presented

Keywords

broadband networks; distributed processing; information networks; multimedia communication; object-oriented methods; open systems; telecommunication computing; telecommunication network management; telecommunication services; telecommunication standards; TINA consortium; Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture; broadband communication; computing architecture; computing industry; distributed computing; information era; international collaboration; interworking; legacy systems; management architecture; multimedia communication; network architecture; object orientation; open architecture; service architecture; service design; service specification; standards; telecommunication services; telecommunications industry; tool-set;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics & Communication Engineering Journal

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0954-0695

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ecej:19960306

Filename

503155