The convergence of the traditional telecommunications world and the Internet has sparked the rapid evolution of Internet telephony, which has also introduced new implementation paradigms. As a result, the creation of a large variety of new and sophisticated communication services has become possible. This article addresses the problem of integrating IP-based telephony with the legacy circuit-switched intelligent network and proposes a novel service architecture for their seamless integration
Published in:
Network, IEEE
(Volume:13
,
Issue:
3
)
Date of Publication: May/Jun 1999