ANALYSIS OF IN SERVICES FOR EGYPTIAN TELEPHONE NETWORK

Abstract

Intelligent Network (IN) is an architectural framework that responds to the need to deploy new services in switched networks, using vendor-independent and standard interface. Prior to the advent of the IN, provision of supplementary services required that basic call processing be augmented in all of a network's switching nodes. Due to the potential heterogeneity of the switching nodes constituting a network, this was a costly and exhausting procedure, and made the introduction of new services uneconomical. The fundamental idea underlying IN is to segregate basic call processing logic

from service control logic and locate the latter in dedicated servers external to the switching network. IN enhances the introduction of new services, which previously needed sophisticated procedure to be implemented. As a consequence for the implementation of new services using IN platforms, an impact over the network was generated. The resulted impact may lead to a performance degradation of the signaling network, which affects both the quality of the new services as well as the existing offered services by the network.