TINA - Architectural basis for future telecommunications services

Today telecommunications service provision and management is coined by international standards for Intelligent Network (IN) and Telecommunications Management Network (TMN). However, with the increasing acceptance of object-oriented software modelling techniques and Open Distributed Processing (ODP) standards, a new architecture beyond IN and TMN is gaining momentum, known as Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA). TINA is considered to be the architectural framework for the unified provision of future telecommunications and management services within a common distributed processing environment