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Volume 31, Number 4, Page 691 (1992)
European Technology Programs |
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The RACE Open Services Architecture project |
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by A. O. Oshisanwo, M. D. Chapman, M. Key, A. P. Mullery, J. Saint-Blancat
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The specification and implementation of current telecommunication services tend to be intimately bound to a specific network architecture. Moreover, within the service software, interactions between the logical modules are not always explicit, accessible, or uniform, and tend to be optimized for a particular service. This is exemplified by the difficulty experienced in integrating equipment from multiple vendors, and has resulted in telecommunication systems that cannot rapidly exploit the advantages of new technology or respond to changing customer requirements. In addition, current telecommunication services tend not to be viewed as an integral whole, whereby user, control, and management aspects of a service are developed independently from one another. Separate development can lead to problems of inconsistency if shared data are not updated correctly. The RACE Open Services Architecture (ROSA) project was established to address these problems. This paper presents an overview of the approach taken in the ROSA project. |
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| Related Subjects: Architecture; Communications |
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