| In recent years, the concept and architecture of traditional telecom has been greatly changed by the Net-volution such as the developing Internet. With the rapid development of Internet and Network, the flux of the world's service traffic data has grown rapidly. In some countries and areas, the service traffic data has exceeded that of voice, and has become the mainstream of telecom traffic. Because of the high bandwidth utilization and exoteric protocols, also available comprehensive service including voice, data and multi-media, it goes without saying that the next generation network will evolve toward packet network.But traditional PSTN is still the important revenue source for telecom carrier. Moreover, PSTN has reached every points of society; it has stable services and users. Network evolution and convergence must be done on the basis of current network. We cannot re-construct a brand-new network despite of what we have now. What telecom carrier eagerly wants to do is how to propel the PSTN to evolve toward network based on packet network without high cost, in other words, how to merge PSTN with the data communication network. At this time, soft switch-based NGN came to being. It is key component, which can transfer the telecommunication network by the traditional electric circuit-switching scheme to the packet network. And it is also the key component of packet switch network.This article has mainly (Dominate layer,transport layer,access layer,application layer) conducted the research to the soft-switch network from four layers, as well as the research of the service... |