Internet service delivery, application platforms, and product evolution
Victor B. Lawrence, Kazem Sohraby · Bell Labs Technical Journal · 2002
The emerging converged networks have created new networking paradigms, which are largely made possible by the Internet and its services and applications. Due to today's increasing processing power and the extensive distributed nature of the new paradigms, it is critical that issues of service delivery based on service intelligent infrastructure and application platforms be carefully considered. Among the most important elements of the paradigms are the dynamic control through intelligent signaling between network layers and a scalable network management infrastructure. Design of easy-to-implement platforms requires expandable hardware and short software-development cycles. Software should support standard interfaces to fully utilize network capabilities and encompass innovative services for subscribers of both wireline and wireless networks. A service creation environment, along with content delivery systems, proxies, and tools for offering such services, also should be implemented. Other requirements for realizing the new networking paradigm are: