An introduction to future communications services and access

Lucent Technologies is well positioned to create the elements required for its customers to offer a wide array of future services to their customers. A vision of these services includes richly detailed and personalized multimedia environments used to conduct transactions and to communicate, integrate, and investigate information from applications created across a set of independent components in a geographically and functionally diverse network. Creation of such environments requires development of new network elements, architectures, and tools for ongoing individualized service creation. A particularly critical element is access to customers. This can be provided over a wide variety of transmission media, such as paired cable, coaxial cable, optical fiber, and wireless networks.