i.e. external to the SSP.
The Service Management System (SMS)
The SMS gives network providers and service subscribers access to the Service Control Point (SCP) and also manages all intelligent network service and subscriber related data.
The Service Creation Environment (SCE)
The SCE enables network providers to create and introduce new services by building a decision tree that specifies the new service.
There are several standardization bodies for Intelligent Network‥the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU, formerly known as CCITT). ANSI provides US contributions, ETSI provides contributions from Europe and from other ETSI member countries. ITU serves as the world-wide standardization body, receiving input from ANSI, ETSI and other member countries that are members of neither of these two regional bodies. ITU1 intelligent network application protocol which includes a first finite state machine and a second finite state machine connected to said first finite state machine.
In accordance with a specific embodiment of the invention, the aforementioned need is fulfilled by a finite state machine that provides ETSI INAP capability set 1 intelligent network application protocol which includes a first finite state machine and a second finite state machine connected to said first finite state machine. The first finite state machine provides each transition between states in response to input data. After the first finite state machine has provided a transition to a state, the second finite state machine is given control and determines if the state to which the first finite state machine has transitioned is the appropriate state