The broadband and multimedia are changing our life style. It provides the opportunity for scanning 500 channels, video-on-demand (VOD) in real-time, interactive games, home shopping, distance learning, telecommuting, etc. The national information infrastructure, regional information highways, and other broadband initiatives have created the need for a new service architecture. The broadband development can be revolutionized by a flexible operations and network architecture. The Telecommunication Information Networking Architecture (TINA) is an open architecture unifying the telecommunication management network (TMN) and the intelligent network (IN) architectures together. It provides more flexibility in application interoperability, and facilitates a faster application development. The information superhighway is considered as highway of broadband communications networks with ramps connecting different service/shopping centers of information providers. The video dial tone (VDT) and interactive services are based on integrated broadband communications network. The VDT and interactive services have both service and management oriented features and functionalities. The TINA having both capabilities TMN (to support management aspect) and IN (to support service aspect) is most suitable for the VDT and interactive services.

S. Devendra

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Suitability of TINA for VDT and interactive services