MSF Architecture / Bellcore / Ericsson / Measure Technology Ireland Ltd. / Telia AB / Siemens / IBM / AT&T / BT / The Parlay Group / Lucent / Cisco / Controller 1 Resources / Ulticom BT / Nortel Networks / Telecom Networks / Programmable Networks / Swedish Telecom / MCI WorldCom / Microsoft / Coordinated / The Multiservice Switching Forum / Routing Architecture Laboratory / /
Country
China / Sweden / /
Currency
USD / pence / / /
Event
Man-Made Disaster / Reorganization / /
Facility
Routing Architecture Laboratory / Columbia University / University of Stockholm / VR3 port Switching / Service Factory / VR2 port VR1 / Royal Institute of Technology / Linköping University / Beijing University of Science / /
IndustryTerm
physical network / Internet service providers / performance management / media streams / costly and complex protocol / configuration management / data communications / telephony / Internet services / monolithic equipment / network technology / optical systems / Internet growing / telephony switch / standardization / software component vendors / infrastructure technologies / network infrastructure / networking equipment / open communication systems / networking applications / communication services / m-commerce/e-commerce / software releases / policy-based networking / technology changes / telephony era / telephone / virtual network / signaled services / component-based network infrastructure / hierarchical management / optical networks / media gateway / transport technology / directory services / specific technology / self-regulating networks / telephone circuits / telecommunications services / media gateways / diverse services / telephone switch / function-specific equipment / real-time services / virtual router / bearer services / generic services / control software / communications industry / smart devices / decomposed media gateway / access to network / resource allocation protocol / active networks / media mapping / network / transport networks / network services / software instances / chosen network solution / network-provided applications / network operator / access networks / physical infrastructure / prestandard products / network management / virtual routers / connection management / external media gateway controllers / few operating systems / access to virtual network / transmission infrastructure / optical media / open interface control protocols / not allow sharing a common physical infrastructure / /
OperatingSystem
L3 / /
Organization
Columbia University / IETF GSMPv3 / Common Open Policy Service / University of Stockholm / Internet Engineering Task Force / MSF Technical Committee / Linköping University / Institute of Technology / Stockholm / Network Intelligence / Beijing University of Science and Technology / International Telecommunication Union / IEEE Communications Society / /
Person
Dave McDysan / Nils Björkman / Satoshi Yoshisawa / NILS BJORKMAN / Yong Jiang / /
Position
Media gateway controller Network service instance control function mb Network / General / separate network manager / model of global connectivity / independent controller / editor / co-chair of the GSMP working group / researcher / Technical Chair / IT consultant / chief architect / Private / media gateway controller / controller / board member / researcher / Research / /
PublishedMedium
IEEE Communications Magazine / /
Technology
SOA / SNMP / partitioned IP router / policy-based networking / API / infrastructure technologies / DWDM / classical IP router / operating system / html / Quality of Service / MGCP / open interface control protocols / virtual home environment / encryption / virtual IP routers / interdomain Border Gateway Protocol / network technology / virtual router / Ethernet Virtual switch Port Port ATM UNI Physical router / resource allocation protocol / IP router / U interface / ATM / operating systems / circuit-switched / ISDN / H.248 / IP routers / frame relay / packet switching / transport technology / IPv4 / H.323 / intelligent network / /
TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING AT THE START OF THE 21ST CENTURY The Movement from Monoliths to Component-Based Network Elements Nils Björkman, Yong Jiang, and Torbjörn Lundberg, Telia Research, Sweden