Intelligence and mobility for BT's next generation networks

• Authors: M. I. Wardlaw
• Venue: BT Technology Journal
• Year: 2005

In common with the majority of service providers today, BT currently implements services and applications with a disparate set of intelligence components, which have been provided over a number of years. It is a key belief that a unified intelligence architecture, implemented as software components in centralised data centres, is essential to hit the key strategic requirements of improved customer experience, increased speed to market and cost reduction. Unification of network and user client intelligence is key. BT's proposed multiservice network and intelligence platform needs to support fixed, mobile and mobility services as well as the broad range of communications applications. The intelligence platform needs to provide the necessary reuse of common capabilities, e.g. authentication, to support these services and applications. Enabling applications to be delivered in co-operation with partners, as well as providing enterprise solutions for specific organisations, is commercially important. This paper describes the architecture for this major change for intelligence in the BT network.