摘要 |
A telecommunications network is provided for establishing communication betw een at least one originating station and at least one destination station. The netw ork includes a plurality of IP switches for addressing and routing data in accordance with an Internet protocol and an ATM protocol. A server, which is coupled to at least one of the IP sw itches, receives at least one service attribute requested by the originating station in communic ation with the IP switch. A network control point (NCP) is employed to provide data, in respon se to a request from the server, pertaining to the service attribute. At least one address d atabase is associated with each of the IP switches. The address database includes a subset of the data available in the NCP.
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