The Intelligent Network
Mark Norris · 2001
This chapter has developed the idea of separating the telecommunications network into a switched information subnet and a signalling subnet and has shown how this allows intelligence to be added to the signalling subnet. This fulfils the original promise of stored programme control and in effect puts the operator back into the network: after all, the most intelligent network technology ever deployed was the human operator sitting at a manual switchboard. This chapter: develops the notion of separating the signalling and switched information subnets; explains how intelligence is added to an established circuit switched network to form an Intelligent Network or IN; introduces the main ideas and terminology of the Intelligent Network; shows how the IN enables customised network services to be constructed.