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Parlay / OSA: From Standards to Reality

ISBN: 978-0-470-02595-6
Hardcover
322 pages
March 2006
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Trademarks and Permissions.

Dedication.

About the Authors.

Foreword.

A Note to the Reader.

Acknowledgements.

End-user Scenarios.

Scenario 1: The Operator’s Perspective.

Scenario 2: The Application Developer’s Perspective.

Scenario 3: End-user Perspective.

Scenario 4: Yet more perspectives.

News Flash (Sometime During 2003–2004).

Scenario 5: The Future.

Part I   Background and Introduction.

1    The Internet is Calling – Today’s Network Ecosystems and Their Evolution.

2    The Need for New Technologies.

3    Follow the Yellow Brick Road.

4    Parlay and OSA.

5    The Parlay Conceptual Architecture.

Part II The Standards In Detail.

6    Standards Capabilities and Directions.

7    Standards Capabilities and Directions II – Scenarios and Details.

8    Standards Capabilities and Directions III – The Lay of the Land.

Part III Building a Service Mediation Gateway.

9    Alternative Architectures.

10      Considerations for Building ‘Carrier-Grade’ Systems.

Part IV  Realizing Parlay.

11  Deploying Parlay Gateways.

12  Parlay and Legacy Systems – Handling Feature Interactions

13  Application Implementation Perspectives.

Part V  Advanced Topics and their Implementation.

14  The Parlay Proxy Manager (*).

15  Multi-Network Deployment Scenarios.

16  Parlay/OSA and XML-based Technologies.

Bibliography.

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms.

References.

Index.

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