ACCESS (Adapting Call Control-Enabled SoftSwitches)

Project Overview
Publications
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Project Overview

The ACCESS project ran from March 2003 to March 2005. It was supported by the TCS programme of TTI (Technology Transfer and Innovation Ltd.) under grant 4132. The project was joint between Edinburgh Network Technologies Ltd (edNET) and Computing Science and Mathematics (University of Stirling). The project personnel were:

• Mussy Kurt-Eli (Industrial Supervisor)
• Colin Cameron (Project Associate)
• Evan Magill (Academic Lead)
• Ken Turner (Second Supervisor)

The project focused on call control for softswitches. This is part of a much larger industry drive towards Voice over IP (VoIP, also known as Internet Telephony). A softswitch is a general-purpose computer programmed to support telecommunications - particularly telephony.

The ACCESS project was part of wider work at edNET on VoIP. The main goals of ACCESS were:

• to enhance and deploy the Vocal softswitch architecture developed by Vovida
• to enhance VoIP call control functions within Vocal
• to add further call control services to Vocal.

Publications

The technical basis of ACCESS is principally contained in the following published papers:

• Use of Logic to describe Enhanced Communications Services

The following papers are relevant to the ACCESS work:

• An Architectural Foundation for Relating Features
• An Architectural Description of Intelligent Network Features and Their Interactions
• Modelling SIP Services
• Realising Architectural Feature Descriptions using LOTOS
• Representing New Voice Services and Their Services
• Relating Services and Features in the Intelligent Network

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