Routing to intelligence.

In a telecommunications network, outgoing calls from a particular subscriber location (11-1) for each of a plurality of telecommunications applications are delivered via a single access link (31) to a single point of distribution (410) through which the subscriber location is caused to be connected, as a function of the telecommunications application type, to an appropriate intelligent network element (INE) server. (55) Additionally, incoming calls of the various application types and directed to a particular directory number are delivered to a single point of collection (420) associated with its NPA-NNX and connections for those calls are caused to be made from the point of collection to an appropriate INE server (65), as a function of the telecommunications application type and the directory number in question. Communications within the network are by way of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cells.