Contents :- Table of Contents by Author - International Engineering Consortium - Consortium Affiliated Universities - Part I: IN Basics - Fundamentals of IN and IN Capabilities - Part II: Business Issues and Case Studies - The Business Case for Intelligent Network Platform Investments: Service- Specific Challenges - Delivering High-Value Services to Make a Buck and Save a Buck - Small-Business and Residential Opportunities for IN-Based Services - Intelligent Network Capabilities: Challenges for the Exchange Carrier - A View of Advanced Intelligent Network Wholesaling - Modeling AIN: A User's Perspective - Intelligent Networks: Competitive Advantage - Value-Added Wholesale IN Services: Dipping for Dollars - Mass-Marketing of AIN Services - An AIN Success Story - Part III: IN Architectures and Operations - Optimizing Service Control Point Architectures to Achieve High Throughput with Minimum Response Time - Deployment of TINA Technology on a Pan-European ATM Network - AIN Billing Issues Update - Intelligent networks and TINA Migration and Interworking Issues - Commonality of AIN Across Network Elements - Intelligent Internet: Value-Added Services by Interworking Between Network Technologies - Network Signaling for the Next Generation of IN Platforms - Security Concerns for IN Architectures and Services - AIN Usage Measurements for Billing - The Marriage of Two Challenges: Technical Considerations of Open AIN - A New Paradigm for Network Intelligence: From Bundled to Open and Programmable Systems - Intelligent Peripheral Realization - The Elements and Description of a Number Portability Administration Center Service Management System (NPAC SMS) - Intelligent Peripherals and Service Nodes: Distributed Intelligence for Seamless Service - ATM Network Intelligence at the User's Fingertips - Internet Access to the Intelligent Network - Object-Oriented Realization of a Broadband Intelligent Network Architecture - Enhancing Enterprise Voice Networks with Intelligent Network Technology - Part IV: Interoperability and Local Number Portability Issues - Regulatory and Public Policy Issues Driving Number Portability Deployment - Interoperability: Spanning the Chasm - Local Number Portability: Operations Impact and Architecture - Interoperability and Ubiquity: Why Can't We All Just Get Along? - Wireless Local Number Portability - Unbundling the Network: A Vendor's Perspective - An Interexchange Carrier Perspective on LNP - Portability Outside of the Rate Center (PORC) - Local Number Portability: A Canadian Regulatory Perspective - Local Number Portability: A Service Bureau Approach - Part V: Standards - Current Status of National and International IN Standards and TINA-C - The TIA Wireless Intelligent Network Standards: Drivers, Status, and Synergies - ITU-T IN Standards International Perspective and Standards Convergence - Part VI: Service Development, Applications, and Management - Integrated Wireless and Wireline Services - Java and Its Use on the Motorola Service Node Platform - Third-Party Programming: A New Outlet for Service Creation - Troubleshooting Intelligent Wireline/Wireless Networks - Mobility in an Intelligent Network: How noes Donna Get What She Wants? - Service Management: Overall Context, Business Drivers, and Challenges - AIN Mass-Market Services: Provisioning and Maintenance Issues - Acronym Guide