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Multiservice platforms for data services

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The potential for broadband and data services is large and continues to expand for the foreseeable future. Consideration of the cost-effective delivery and support of both new, advanced services, as well as existing services, has led to the driver for multiservice platforms (MSPs). The cost effectiveness results from the MSP potential to share network bandwidth between services, offer a potential simplification of the operational support systems (OSS), and enable new service features and functions. A generic ATM-based MSP is described in this paper where issues of service support, service interworking, operations and maintenance, and network architecture are discussed. The paper is intended as a tutorial on the concepts.

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  1. BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, IP 5 3RE

    D J Lewis, ON. Wheeler, MJ. Warner, D. Newey & S. Lalwani

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Lewis, D.J., Wheeler, O., Warner, M. et al. Multiservice platforms for data services. BT Technology Journal 16, 140–147 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009637108676

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