• Examines Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), its capabilities, network signalling requirements and likely technical developments
• Offers detailed accounts of the different network technologies, including B-ISDN, ATM and C7
• Outlines performance studies of a number of design scenarios for providing broadband services
• Analyses the signaling protocols, including the user network interface, inter-carrier interface and ITU Broadband Network Signalling Protocols
• Provides a definitive list of the standards

Contents:

• The Evolution of Telecommunications Networks
• Signalling in Telecommunications
• B-ISDN Service Characterization and Signalling Support
• The ATM Forum Signalling Protocols and their Interworking
• The ATM Forum's Private Network - Network Interface
• Internodal Signalling - B-ISUP
• Access Signalling - Q2931 and Related Standards
• The Call Control Protocol in a Separated Call and Bearer Environment
• The Use of Session Control in DAVIC to Provide Interactive Multimedia Services
• The VB5 Interface
• Broadband Virtual Private Networks
• Signalling for Mobility in Broadband Networks
• Design for Performance of Broadband Signalling and Services
• The Development of Broadband Signalling Platforms
• A Demonstrator Platform for ITU-T, DAVIC and TINA-C Implementations
• Signalling with Objects
• Network Intelligence in Broadband, CS3 and the Options.