1. Telecommunications Services 26th November 1999
FORCES Colloquium
Telecommunications Services
26th November 1999

2. Telecommunications Services
FORCES Colloquium
Telecommunications Services
The Next Generation

3. FORCES Mission focus on telecommunications services:
FORum for
Creation and
Engineering of Telecommunications
Services
promote industrial-academic collaboration
organise visits, workshops, colloquia
share problems and solutions

4. FORCES Consortium – Industrial
British Telecommunications
CITEL
Ericsson UK
Marconi Communications

5. FORCES Consortium – Academic
Glasgow
Kent
Lancaster
Stirling
Strathclyde

6. FORCES Consortium – Affiliates
Birmingham
Cambridge
City
Nottingham

7. Telecommunications Context
world-wide deregulation
new markets
new competition
technical advances
new kinds of services
new kinds of technology
the future
new opportunities
new challenges

8. Service Evolution bearer services becoming less important
end-user services becoming more important
separate network and service providers
third-party and multi-party services
multimedia and information services

9. Technology Evolution voice/data/multimedia integration
new bearer networks (e.g. VoIP)
new switching technology (e.g. ADSL, FTTK)
advanced Intelligent Networks (e.g. JAIN)
increased mobile communications
easier distributed computing
service APIs (e.g. TAPI, Parlay)

10. The Next Generation service evolution + technology evolution =
chaos?
convergence?
the community needs improved
understanding of problems
range of solutions
service life-cycle and supporting tools
service interoperability
distributed control of services

11. Telecommunications Services The Next Generation
FORCES Colloquium
Telecommunications Services
The Next Generation
Let’s Join Forces!