General information on JAIN and Parlay can be obtained here.  Within the JAIN and Parlay consortia Telcordia activities have included the following

• Java Call Control (JCC)
• Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)
• JAIN Coordinations and Transactions (JCAT)
• JAIN Service Creation Environment (SCE)
• Parlay X
• Parlay ETS
• Telcordia ISCP Supports 3GPP OSA
• Programming Converged Networks: Call Control in Java, XML, and Parlay/OSA
• Links to general information, JAIN, Parlay and related bodies

• JAIN Java Call Control (JCC)

Telcordia is Specification lead for the key Expert Group defining a Java API for call control, the JAIN Java Call Control (JCC) specification (JSR 21), as well as providing a Reference Implementation (RI) and Test Compatibility Kit (TCK).

TrueTel Communications Achieves JCC Certification

Note: Companies that have implemented or are implementing JCC (known to us as of July 2001) include:
          Aepona, Fujitsu, Hughes Software Systems, Incomit, ipVerse, JNetX, NEC, NTT Comware, NTT Labs, OKI

Public Information:

• JCC 1.1 Maintenance Release Overview and Call Flows
• JCC Specification 1.1
• Publications
• A description of mapping JCC to SIP:

R. Jain, J.-L. Bakker and F. Anjum, Java Call Control (JCC) and Session Initiation Protocol, Invited Paper,  Trans. IEICE, Vol.E84-B No.12 pp. 3096-, Dec. 2001.
• A chapter from the new book:
R. Jain and F. Anjum, Java Call Control,
in "Java in Telecommunications: Solutions for Next Generation Networks", ed. T. Jepsen, Wiley, 2001.
• An older (but still useful) paper from IEEE Communications magazine:
R. Jain, F. Anjum, P. Missier and S. Shastry, Java call control, coordination and transactions, IEEE Communications, 106-114, Jan. 2000.
• Downloadable software: (for license questions, please contact jain-license@research.telcordia.com)
  • Free licence
    • The JCC 1.1 Reference Implementation (RI) is available as a ZIP file and its current version is 1.1 (a change log can be found here)  
    • The JCC 1.1 Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) is available as a ZIP file and its current version is 1.1 (a change log can be found here)  
  • Commercial licence (object code only), download the commercial license here.
  • Commercial licence (object code and source code), please contact jain-license@research.telcordia.com.
• A general JCC interest mailing list can be found here; a FAQ is under development.
• In addition, Telcordia is an active participant in the Joint industry group defining a common language-independent call control model.  The group includes Parlay, JAIN, 3GPP (OSA) and ETSI.

 

• Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP)

Telcordia is Specification lead for the Expert Group defining a Java API for the MGCP protocol, a key protocol in NGN systems (JSR 23).  Telcordia has been in charge of leading the definition of the specification, as well as providing a Reference Implementation (RI) and Test Compatibility Kit (TCK).
• MGCP 1.0 Specification
• Downloadable software: (for license questions, please contact jain-license@research.telcordia.com)
  • Free licence
    • The MGCP 1.0 Reference Implementation (RI) is available as a ZIP file and its current version is 1.0 (a change log can be found here). Please send questions regarding the RI to the JAIN MGCP RI's mailing list.   
    • The MGCP 1.0 Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) is available as a ZIP file and its current version is 1.0 (a change log can be found here). Please send questions regarding the TCK to the JAIN MGCP TCK's mailing list.   
  • Commercial licence (object code only), download the commercial license here.
  • Commercial licence (object code and source code), please contact jain-license@research.telcordia.com.

 

• JAIN Service Creation Environment (SCE)

Telcordia is co-Specification lead (with Hughes Software Sysyems) for the Expert Group defining the Service Creation Environment (SCE) specification (JSR 100).  This group started work in 1Q01.
• SCE Java Specification Request
• J.-L. Bakker and R. Jain, A Service Creation Markup Language for Scripting Next Generation Network Services, IETF Meeting 52, Salt Lake City, December 2001
• J.-L. Bakker and R. Jain, Next Generation Service Creation Using XML Scripting Languages, ICC 2002, New York, NY (USA), April 28-May 2, 2002

 

• JAIN Coordination and Transactions (JCAT)

Telcordia is Specification lead for the Expert Group defining a richer call control model, beyond JCC, that allows definition of advanced A/IN CS-2 services (JSR 122).  This group started work in 2Q01.
• JCAT Java Specification Request

 

• Parlay Emergency Telecommunications Services (ETS) Working Group

Telcordia is Chair for the Working Group defining Parlay APIs to allow authorized users to obtain a high probability of completion for emergency calls during a crisis situation when public networks may be restricted due to atack,
damage, congestion or faults.
• Parlay ETS Working Group Charter
• Telcordia ETS Page

 

• Parlay X (PX) Working Group

Telcordia is co-chair (with BTexact Technologies) of the Working Group defining a simplified XML-based API that allows rapid creation of innovative applications, by programmers who are not necessarily telecommunications experts, using a higher layer of abstraction than the current Parlay APIs.
• Parlay X Working Group Charter
• Telcordia Parlay X Page

 

• Links
• Parlay
• Sun's JAIN site
• 3GPP
• IETF Spirits Working Group
• ETSI Technical Committee on Services and Protocols for Advanced Networks (SPAN) 12

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