Intelligent network: the spectrum of its multimedia application and related technology

Intelligent Network is an architecture by which customized service logic programs can be created by a service provider for enhanced features to be deployed, managed, and updated over various communication networks. The advent of Intelligent Network ushered a fundamental shift in the landscape of information and communication technology. This shift is the movement away from the concept of traditional use to the service-independent and network-independent domain of the overlay network. Intelligent Network introduces modular programmable elements and specialized resources in its architecture. In view of the possibilities it offers, interest towards Intelligent Network accelerates and draws the proper attention it rightly deserves. Intelligent Network is an effective means by which information that is critical to society like medical diagnoses, commercial analysis, and governmental data can be deployed, accessed, retrieved, and transmitted in a timely manner from the source to the desired location. The Intelligent Network architectures are tested for several scenarios and the indicators of network health, including system latency, transfer of critical information, link utilization, and scalability. The results for most scenarios generally fall within acceptable rates, thus lending themselves to wide range of deployment of vital and time-critical services. In the few cases they did not, the next scenarios were modified to alter the hindering criteria until a healthy system was created. This was particularly apropos in the levels within the scenarios in which a diagnostic database was introduced. It was found that the additional factor of packets being re-sent, either because they were not being serviced on time, or because they were not given enough time to be processed, had a serious impact on the design and needed to be addressed appropriately. The study presented in this dissertation opens the door to future steps in significant innovation that will contribute in re-channeling the means by which people across geographic boundaries access time-critical decision-making information.