5
Foreword
Mike Carr
7-12
Introduction
Pat Hughes
15-20
A diet rich in fibre
Monomode fibres for long haul transmission systems
J. E. Midwinter
21-27
A diet rich in fibre
The evolutionary potential of single-mode optical fibre systems
A. P. McDonna and D. B. Mortimore
28-32
A diet rich in fibre
British Telecom 565 Mbit/s lightline system
R. M. Brooks, G. P. Coombs, R. Rowley, V. W. Stanbrook and A. Stevenson, et al.
33-43
A diet rich in fibre
A highly integrated 565 optical fibre system
R. M. Brooks, P. Cochrane, L. Bickers, G. Blau and G. P. Coombs, et al.
44-50
A diet rich in fibre
Demonstration of 2.488 Gbit/s transmission on the UK—Channel Islands No 7 submarine cable system
R. B. J. Lewis, L. N. Barker, E. G. Bryant, S. F. Carter and D. M. Spirit, et al.
51-53
A diet rich in fibre
A radically new approach to the installation of optical fibre using the viscous flow of air
S. A. Cassidy and M. H. Reeve
54-56
A diet rich in fibre
Design and implementation of an optical link using blown-fibre cable
M. H. Reeve, S. A. Cassidy, S. Hornung and P. Yennadhiou
57-64
A diet rich in fibre
Evolution of optical core networks
D. Johnson and T. Gilfedder
65-72
A diet rich in fibre
Mitigating the risk of high power damage to the BT network
E. Sikora, J. Wright, D. McCartney, K. Farrow and R. Davey
73-79
A diet rich in fibre
Designing a 21st and 22nd century fibre broadband access network
R. P. Davey, D. Payne, P. Barker, K. Smith and M. Wilkinson, et al.
83-91
The access network
Digital transmission in the local network
S. R. Elliott and R. C. Turner
92-97
The access network
A long reach digital subscriber loop transceiver
P. F. Adams, S. A. Cox, R. B. P. Carpenter and N. G. Cole
98-107
The access network
Local network distribution practices — a walk from MDF to customer
D. I. Monro, D. S. Butler and S. Worger
108-120
The access network
Realising the potential of access networks using DSL
K. T. Foster, G. Young, J. W. Cook, D. E. A. Clarke and R. H. Kirkby, et al.
121-131
The access network
Fixed access network technologies
A. F. Cameron, D. J. Thorne, K. T. Foster and S. I. Fisher
135-142
Speaking and listening
Voice services in the evolving telecommunications network
A. R. Willis, I. P. C. Bruce and N. T. Condick
143-150
Speaking and listening
CallMinder™ — the development of BT’s new telephone answering service
K. Beacham and S. Barrington
151-160
Speaking and listening
A speech codec for the Skyphone service
I. Boyd and C. B. Southcott
161-169
Speaking and listening
Assessing human perception
M. P. Hollier and G. Cosier
170-178
Speaking and listening
URU Plus — a scalable component-based speaker-verification system for BT’s 21st century network
M. Pawlewski and J. Jones
181-184
The next generation telco
Networks and systems for BT in the 21st century
M. H. Reeve, C. Bilton, P. E. Holmes and M. Bross
185-197
The next generation telco
A new service infrastructure architecture
P. Crane
198-204
The next generation telco
Everything over IP — an overview of the strategic change in voice and data networks
S. A. Karim and P. Hovell
205-211
The next generation telco
The Parlay network API specification
M. J. Yates and I. Boyd
212-221
The next generation telco
Evolution towards an ATD multiservice network
M. Littlewood, I. D. Gallagher and J. L. Adams
222-228
The next generation telco
The evolving art of packet switching
J. W. Atkins, N. J. P. Cooper and K. E. Gleen
231-240
Breadth as well as depth
Servers for BT’s interactive TV services
G. W. Kerr
241-248
Breadth as well as depth
Intelligent scheduling and planning systems for telecommunications resource management
N. Azarmi and R. Smith
249-253
Breadth as well as depth
ARMS — application of AI and OR methods to resource management
G. Owusu, C. Voudouris, R. Dorne, C. Ladde and G. Anim-Ansah, et al.
254-259
Breadth as well as depth
ARMS Collaborator — intelligent agents using markets to organise resourcing in modern enterprises
B. Virginas, C. Voudouris, G. Owusu and G. Anim-Ansah
260-271
Breadth as well as depth
mPower — a component-based development framework for multi-agent systems to support business processes
J. W. Shepherdson, H. Lee and P. Mihailescu
272-277
Breadth as well as depth
Data mining applications in BT
R. Shortland and R. Scarfe
278-284
Breadth as well as depth
Advanced call scheduling for testing a telecommunications network
C. Voudouris, N. Azarmi and A. Jones
285-298
Breadth as well as depth
Networked information management
N. J. Davies and M. C. Revett
301-312
But what about people?
Family life in the digital home — domestic telecommunications at the end of the 20th century
B. Anderson, A. McWilliam, H. Lacohée, E. Clucas and J. Gershuny
313-320
But what about people?
Self-service — but is it good to talk?
T. Alcock and N. Millard
321-328
But what about people?
The unpredictable mobile phone
D. Miller
329-335
List of acronyms