Enhancement Of Public Networks Provides Added Value To Private Networks

Future successful companies are the ones that can adapt easily to the demands of their customers. They will do so by increasing their use of computer and communications technology on a large scale. This provides new markets for telecommunications operators, but also challenges them to tackle problems like for example integrating the historically separated fields of private and public (tele-) communications. The advent of TASC within ITU-TS is a sign of increasing attention for this subject. The Intelligent Network (IN) has separated control and switching functions, using telecommunications functionality s well as computer functionality in a public environment. Computer Aided Telecommunications (CAT) uses telecommunications and computer functionality in a private environment, to enble businesses to deal with incoming and outgoing traffic in a more efficient and effective way. With this contribution PTT Research, the research organization of Royal PTT Netherlands (KPN), presents the results of a project that studies the mutual impact of CAT and IN. The project has the purpose to find today's technical restrictions in both CAT and IN that may prevent realization of new services and applications based on CAT and IN, and aimed at integrated private/public telecommunications.