TELECOMMUNICATIONS
This book is designed to give some practical insight into how public telecommunications networks have advanced from the old days of offering just simple telephony services to becoming today's ‘intelligent’ networks.
Abstract
34:223 INTELLIGENT NETWORKS: PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS by John Anderson (Stevenage, England: Institution of Electrical Engineers “IEE Telecommunications Series 46,” 2002—$84.00, ISBN 0-85296-977-5, 226 pp., diagrams, photos, references, appendices, glossary, index) is designed “to give some practical insight into how public telecommunications networks have advanced from the old days of offering just simple telephony services to becoming today’s ‘intelligent’ networks.” It is designed for a broad though technically-savvy audience, whether or not they have the specific technical background to fully understand the complexity of IN structures. After an introduction to such networks, chapters discuss the foundations of IN, signaling intelligence, international standards for intelligent networking, call party handling, distributed intelligence, a variety of service examples, and a concluding summary. The author is a freelance consultant who also works at British Telecom’s laboratories (he was with BT for three decades). (Chris Sterling)