Parlay / OSA: From Standards to RealityISBN: 978-0-470-02595-6
Hardcover
322 pages
March 2006
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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.