Implications of technology and policy for intelligen network research priorities

摘要

Windows 95 may provide a major stimulus to Intelligent Network (IN) development,o real technological convergene betwen computing and telecommunication,and to a major reordering of research priorities in the field.The paper examines IN in the context of the evolution of convergence and the larger framework of informaiton superhighway,infrastructure and society developments.It shows how the pace and direction of IN development will be driven by demand associated with organisational and institutional change,not the simple supply of greater capacity or the discovery of 'killer applications'.This will be associated with a shift in priorities to distributed networkign,informaiton based service development and a diversity of very specific new applications.