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| | Intelligent Network - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Intelligent Network (IN) is a telephone network architecture originated by Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in which the service logic for a call is located separately from the switching facilities, allowing services to be added or changed without having to redesign switching equipment. |
 | | That is, a certain portion of a dialed phone number, such as 800 or 900, triggers a request for a specific service. |
 | | A later version of IN called Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) introduces the idea of a "service-independent" architecture in which a given part of a telephone number can interpreted differently by different services depending on factors such as time of day, caller identity, and type of call. |
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