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January 12, 1999
Article #1484
Volume 10, Issue 1
Section: Telco

 


 

Java In Advanced Intelligent Networks (JAIN)
Includes IBM Corp., Bellcore and Trillium Digital Systems, Inc

IBM Corp., Bellcore and Trillium Digital Systems, Inc. have joined the Java In Advanced Intelligent Networks (JAIN) initiative led by Sun, a move that demonstrates continuing telecommunications-industry support of Sun's platform-independent Java technology to develop open standards and specifications for Intelligent Network (IN) applications and services.

JAIN is a telecom industry framework -- based on Sun's JavaBeans component architecture -- designed to spur a new wave of telecom services blending Internet and IN technologies in order to drive convergence between traditional voice networks and IP-based data networks and to enable service portability (allowing service providers to provide the same telephony services across different networks and delivery platforms). The JAIN framework holds the promise of making IN telecom application development faster, simpler and less expensive through the use of Java technology. [...read more...]

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