Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications/Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources Conference/E-Learning on Telecommunications Workshop (AICT/SAPIR/ELETE'05)
Stakes of Next-Generation Communication Services
Lisbon, Portugal
July 17-July 22
ISBN: 0-7695-2388-9
Communications services are facing major technical evolutions with SIP, IMS and NGN. Their usage is also evolving with the convergence between multiple communication modes (voice, visio, Instant Messaging...) and their seamless management through availability strategies. In this context, three major stakes for service conception are to secure the usage, to include multiple communication modes and to build flexible service architectures, relying on re-usable components and structured with common models.