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INVITATION TO THE NEXT CHOOSE MEETING

SI-CHOOSE has the pleasure to invite you to the following
CHOOSE-SIG-Beer talk:

Title:          Objects in Telecommunication
                A Transatlantic Field Trial of Telecommunication
                and Information Service Prototypes Based on
                OMG-CORBA and the TINA-C Service Architecture.
 
Speaker:        Tim Eckardt (GMD-FOKUS, Berlin, Germany)
 
Date:           Friday December 12th, 1997.
 
Time:           16:15, about 1 hour + ap�ro 
 
Where:          Technopark Bern, Mehrzweckraum # 2 


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OUTLINE OF TALK:
 
(i)  Introduction to the Telecommunications Information Networking
     Architecture - TINA
     - The TINA Consortium (TINA-C) and its Activities
       (Core Team, Auxiliary Projects, Workgroups)
     - Business Model,
     - Service Architecture,
     - Network Resource Architecture
     - Computing Architecture

(ii) Results of the TINA-C Auxiliary Project:
     "Personal Communication Support (PCS) in TINA"

(iii)"The TINA Trial" - a Series of Global Field Trials
     - Overview/Objectives of the Global-One Field Trial
     - Infrastructure of the Field Trial (kTN, ...)
     - Demonstration Service Scenarios
     - Outlook/Conclusions
 

SUMMARY:

The Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture Consortium
(TINA-C) is a consortium formed by leading network operators,
telecommunications equipment manufacturers, and computer manufacturers
with the goal to define a common software architecture for multimedia
telecommunications and information services. Major outcomes of that
effort will be:

(i) the TINA Service Architecture comprising a set of principles for
constructing, providing, and operating multimedia telecommunications
and information services,

(ii) the TINA Network Resource Architecture for technology-independent
modeling of connections management,

(iii) the TINA Computing Architecture which defines the object-oriented
modeling concepts and the distributed processing environment for the
creation and operation of service components and systems and

(iv) the definition of Reference Points specifying conformance
requirements for interworking across domain boundaries.

Demonstrations of TINA-C achievements in the form of global field
trials are planned by major member companies of the TINA-Consortium for
this year and 1998 under the label The TINA Trial (TTT). One such trial
(in the context of TTT) is currently prepared by Deutsche Telekom,
France Telecom, Sprint, and Global One. These four companies are
engaged in a trans-oceanic field trial of telecommunications and
informations services developed according to the TINA-C Service
Architecture on top of a CORBA-based distributed processing environment
(DPE) spanning sites of all 4 partners. The resulting global service
infrastructure should be open and programmable allowing

(i) to reuse service components from different sources and
(ii) to operate services distributed over multiple provider domains.
 
As an important outcome of this trial a test of interoperability
involving a multitude of different CORBA ORB products will evaluate the
usefulness of CORBA 2.0 standards/products as a basis for large,
globally distributed, object-oriented service environments.
Computational objects built on the chosen TINA middleware have been
distributed on a global scale to gain insight in performance-related
issues of CORBA-based TINA service components



CV of Tim Eckardt:
 
Tim Eckardt is employed as a Project Manager at GMD/FOKUS in Berlin,
Germany He received his masters in computer sciences from the Technical
University of Berlin in 1993. He has been involved in research projects
related to Intelligent Network, UPT, TMN, OMG/CORBA, TINA-C, and
personal communications.
 
Tim Eckardt has been the technical project manager for the "PCS in
TINA" TINA-C auxiliary project performed on behalf of Deutsche Telekom
by GMD FOKUS.  Since 1997 he is actively involved in the TINA-C field
trial of Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, and Sprint where he is a
task leader responsible for one of the demonstration service scenarios
involving legacy-to-TINA system interworking.
 
Tim Eckardt is member of IEEE. He is the author of several papers
related to IN/TMN integration, inter-domain management, personal
communications, Intelligent Agents, and personal communications-related
aspects of the TINA service architecture.


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