Research Problem

Interactive broadband service developed by the network operators and the service providers demand that the underlying telecommunications network supports decentralization and is scaleable. The control functions related to the network and the services should the partly controlled by the user and the service applications. This raises the questions about how the control functions will be defined, what are their interfaces and what security issues are related to the use of these functions.

Many companies have decentralized their operations in order to maintain competitiveness and to react more quickly to market changes. This demands efficient presentation and transfer of information. A decentralized information system that contains various types of information could be implemented by using hypermedia techniques. The information could be accessed via a uniform user interface that could be used in, for example, video conferencing, transferring product and business information, and controlling production and marketing.

Research Plan

The project began in 1996 and was complited by the schedule in 1999.

Project plans: (in Finnish)

Preliminary plan

Project plan 1.1.1996 (draft)
Project plan for 1996, 23.8.1996
Project plan for 1997, 17.1.1997
Project plan for 1998 , 12.12.1997, and project in 1996&1997, version 1.1

Project overlook: schedule and tasks (1.1.1997-31.8.1997)
Project overlook: scedule and tasks 1998

Project adjustment 1997

TOVE Report 1996, Plan 1997, 13.12.1996
TOVE Report 1997, Plan1998, 27.1.1998

Project description

The TOVE (TOimialaVErkot) project is divided to two sub-projects, to applications part and to communications platform part. The objectives, resources and results of these sub-projects are described separately.

The objective of the applications part is to research information publishing in the world wide web, find out what the textile industry corporate communications needs are and to develop groupware software for textile industry companies.

The objective of the communications platform part is to create highly adaptable ITU-T and ATM Forum standards compliant platform to study and develop distributed call-control software compatible with B-ISDN (Broadband-Integrated Services Digital Network) networks.