Service Provision in Communications Networks

摘要

It is desirable in communications networks to be able to offer a variety of services to the customer, and to be able to add or modify the portfolio of services available. A service delivery infrastructure (21) is provided, which would sit in the Service Control Point of an intelligent network architecture, and which delivers services using an array of service independent features (20). In the arrangement described, the service delivery infrastructure (21) has an object oriented architecture and interacts with systems, such as billing (22) and network management (40), in the communications network by means of objects within the infrastructure (21). An aspect of the infrastructure (21) is the provision of selected sets of services to users of the communications network, which selected sets effectively provide dedicated service networks (30) to each customer.