Flexible Application of Object Oriented Technologies to Distributed Intelligent Networks

The Intelligent Network Conceptual Model is the reference conceptualization for any INarchitecture.. It incorporates all important elements of an intelligent network and identifies theirinterrelations. More importantly, reifications of these abstract entities are presented from the pointof view of four different abstraction layers. Implicit in that structuring is the notion that differentlayers should be as independent one from another as possible and that different types of concernsshould be handled by different layers. We believe that this goal has not yet been realized to asufficient extend and that the advent of object oriented technologies and in particular distributedobject technologies can change that. We present an object oriented architecture that capitalizesheavily on distributed technologies to achieve the above mentioned goal.