Abstract:
A telecommunications system is required by the system operator to have a high availability, especially in so far as the central processing is concerned, as failure of this can render a significant portion of the system inoperative. A telecommunications system has connected to an interface at least two remotely attached computing platforms, each of which is arranged to receive, process and provide a response to each functional request from the interface, the system responding to the first response received from the computing platforms. The computing platforms may provide high availability, while themselves being low availability devices.
Abstract:
A telecommunications system is required by the system operator to have a high availability, especially in so far as the central processing is concerned, as failure of this can render a significant portion of the system inoperative. A telecommunications system has connected to an interface at least two remotely attached computing platforms, each of which is arranged to receive, process and provide a response to each functional request from the interface, the system responding to the first response received from the computing platforms. The computing platforms may provide high availability, while themselves being low availability devices.
Abstract:
Using a known Intelligent Network Architecture a service invocation message is addressed via a Sorter to an appropriate Server. After interrogating the caller when necessary, the Server may re-address the message directly to another Server within the same organisation or consortium, which may in turn repeat the process. Thereby a Service Provider representing a large business organisation or consortium offers a single umbrella service and is able to introduce new services or sources of information, and to cease, re-configure or resituate the existing services with no effect whatever upon public network or message network equipment.
Abstract:
Using a known Intelligent Network Architecture a service invocation message is addressed via a Sorter to an appropriate Server. After interrogating the caller when necessary, the Server may re-address the message directly to another Server within the same organisation or consortium, which may in turn repeat the process. Thereby a Service Provider representing a large business organisation or consortium offers a single umbrella service and is able to introduce new services or sources of information, and to cease, re-configure or resituate the existing services with no effect whatever upon public network or message network equipment.
Abstract:
For a telecommunications system having subscriber access and or PABX and connectionless network signalling, particularly for information services which do not require a bearer connection, such as Intelligent Networks (IN) and Telecommunications Information Network Architecture (TINA) the access signalling is controlled remotely using a Connectionless Signalling Interworking Unit which interworks the network and access signalling systems by providing a transaction control and monitoring function whereby information is passed in either direction without establishment of a bearer connection.