: The TINA architecture is emerging as an integrated approach to service and network control and management. The ACTS VITAL project aims to extend and refine the TINA architecture and validate it through the design, development and demonstration of a set of reusable components; the latter are used to realise services composed of multimedia, multiparty and mobility service features. This paper describes the results of the project’s first phase which resulted in field trials, focusing on the refinements and extensions with respect to TINA.