Designing Application-Oriented Languages for Service Creation (4-18)
18 July 1989
Recently, BellCore, the RBOCs, and the various telecommunications vendors have focused substantial work on defining a next-generation-network architecture to create, deploy, and maintain network-based telecommunications services. Such an architecture would divide the network's software into two levels: system and application. Broadly, system-level software would be provided by vendors, and that software should provide all of those functions that are common to all services. Application-level software would provide those functions that are needed by the individual services. Essential to service creation within such a network is the service programming languages used to create the application-level software. Such programming languages must be designed to encourage the creation of software that meets and even exceeds the sophisticated performance, security, and reliability standards characteristic of today's networks.