MULTISERVICE PLATFORMS FOR DATA SERVICES

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