Mobility in TINA

The need to advance the frontiers of open service provision and open network management beyond what is actually achievable with IN and TMN was the main driver of the TINA-C initiative, that began in 1993, after precursory work done within the European Programme RACE (in particular with Projects ROSA and Cassiopeia) and within Bellcore (in particular with their AIN, Advanced Intelligent Network). TINA-C laid down a number of principles at the beginning of its work.