Contents :- Table of Contents by Author - The International Engineering Consortium - Consortium Affiliated Universities - Part I. Business Realities of AIN - Basics of AIN - AIN Can It Deliver? - Economic Realities of IN - AIN Deployment: A Blue Chip Investment for BellSouth - Value-Added Services in the Intelligent Network - Economic Implications of New Technologies - The Business Environment of AIN: A Service Provider's Perspective - Challenges in Implementing Intelligent Networks - IN Solutions on a Global Basis - Marketing Intelligent Network Services - Customer-Centric Intelligent Networking - Application of AIN to Emerging Business Opportunities - Challenges and Opportunities of AIN - Intelligent Network Convergence - The AIN Value Chain - The Value Chain of the Intelligent Network - Wholesale AIN: Concepts and Issues - Deploying AIN in the Bell Atlantic Network - Dimensioning Network Resources for IN Services - Part II. Standards and Regulatory Issues - Legislative and Regulatory Update: Trends and Insights - Establishing an American Intelligent Network Standard - ITU and North American IN Alignment - From IN to TINA The Step Forward? - Regulatory Oversight of Mediated Access - A View of a Future Intelligent Network - Part III. Current Technologies and Applications - AIN Services Deployed - IN Platforms and Software Technologies - Building Local Number Portability in the Intelligent Network - Taking Personal Number Service from the Lab to the Field - Intelligent Network Speech Recognition - Voice Services and Their Applications: Intelligent Network Technologies of Today and Tomorrow - Enhanced Service Alternatives to AIN - End-User Control of IN Service Provisioning - Software Agent Technology in Intelligent Networks and Services - Service Specifications: A Critical Factor in the Success of IN Services - ellSouth's Open AIN Strategy: Implementation and Issues - Building a Reliable Intelligent Peripheral/Service Node - ASMS: A Robust Client-Programmable Service Management System - Part IV. Wireless and the Intelligent Network - Wireless & Wireline Services: Bridging the Gap with AIN - Impacts of Wireless Intelligent Network Standards on Cellular Services - Wireless Intelligent Network: Infrastructure Before Services - Intelligent Network for Non-Homogeneous Wireless Systems and Services - Integration of a Service Node into an Existing Cellular Network - The Use of IN in UMTS - AIN/HLR Services for Wireless Resellers: The Integration of Wireline and Wireless Networks - An Intelligent PIN Solution for Wireless Fraud - Using AIN and IS-41 to Provide Seamless Roaming for PCS - Part V. Operations - A Service Provider's Perspective - AIM Operations - Service Reality Collides with Service Theory - AIN Operations: The NYNEX Experience - IN Security Issues - Requirements for AIN Service Reliability - IN Interoperability and Integration: A Supplier's Perspective - Intelligent Network Interoperability Testing and Analysis - Appendix Reliability Issues - Network Reliability Council (NRC) Reliability Issues - Changing Technologies Focus Group - Acronym Guide - Index