Telecommunications information network architecture TINA

Historically, the Intelligent Network (IN) concept has its roots in the notions of network and services. The architecture of the intelligent network is based on a set of principles: separation of call processing and services, rapid creation and deployment of services, independence from suppliers, and so on. As the intelligent network develops, the architecture must take account of more complex network capabilities (broadband, multimedia, multipoint, multicast connections), increasing the need for flexibility. The flexible creation and introduction of new services must be based on new principles, such as separation of the application from the resources it implements, easy management of customer data, etc. To meet these needs, the TINA (Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture) consortium has developed a global architecture for the creation, deployment, operation and management of services on a global scale. The aim is to develop a homogeneous reference model for open telecommunications architectures encompassing operation and management services, "integrating the intelligent network and telecommunications management network (TMN) domains". TINA uses the latest advances in Open Distributed Processing (ODP) and object-oriented design to ensure interoperability, reusability of software and specifications, flexible software distribution and homogeneity in service design and management. The TINA initiative aims to lay the technical foundations for the generalization and deployment of information services in networks, and to influence future IN and TMN standards or their evolution.

To achieve this, the TINA consortium has defined a set of concepts strongly inspired by the ODP reference model and the Telecommunications Management Network (TMN), to define a global architecture centered on the concept of telecommunication services, and offering an environment which, on the one hand facilitates service creation and service and network management, and on the other hand supports the interworking of heterogeneous systems.