The OVOPS Environment For IN Applications

Intelligent Network (IN) is an important development of modem telecommunications. It facilitates the distribution of intelligence that allows rapid development and deployment of new services by service providers. Just as important, IN reduces the time between conception of a service and its introduction. Several major development phases exist in IN service life cycle. From the teleoperators point of view, more powerful methods and tools are needed for service prototyping, service creation and service management. This paper introduces an environment for design, implementation and testing of distributed applications called OVOPS. In the paper we suggest how the classes of the OVOPS library can be used in the IN application areas of service creation, service logic and service management.