Advancing the Next Generation Network

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Advancing the Next Generation Network
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FOR Presentation
SOURCE ATIS
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CONTACT(S) Tim Jeffries, ATIS VP Technology and Business Development, tjeffries_at_atis.org
Submission DateJuly 1, 2008
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NGN Current Activities

• ATIS work on the NGN crosses every facet of the
  organization.
• The ATIS NGN Focus Groups Framework (2004),
  Roadmap (2005), and Gap Analysis (2006) framed
  the industrys discussion and now, implementation
  of standards activities in support of NGN is on
  an aggressive timeline.
• ATIS committees (PTSC, PRQC, IIF, OBF, TMOC, and
  ESIF) are creating or coordinating solutions to
  pressing issues on NGN architecture, security,
  network management, OSS/BSS, quality of service,
  and emergency services.
• ATIS is also expanding its NGN work with
  initiatives on (Service/Network) Convergence,
  Identity Management, Home Networking, Service
  Oriented Networks, and Next-Generation Carrier
  (IP) Interconnect.

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NGN Current Activities

• ATIS focus is on NG-network interconnection and
  functions/elements of the NGN to enable innovated
  converged services.
• Over 77 technical/operational issues underway in
  ATIS committees directly related to the NGN
  with countless others indirectly related.
• Current activities include the development of
  mechanisms to ensure delivery of complex services
  across and between the IMS, SOA, and Web 2.0
  domains (i.e., NG-Service Enablers), to include
  service quality management service creation
  environments service development service
  delivery service orchestration common data
  modeling and BSS/OSS.
• ATIS is coordinating its NGN work with numerous
  standards development organizations including,
  ITU-T, 3GPP, IETF, ETSI TISPAN, TMF and DSL Forum
  to name a few.

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Strategic Direction

• Effectively promote the development of the NGN in
  a logical, actionable and implementable manner.
• Create a standardization process for NGN that
  capitalizes on the bottom-up contribution
  process to address real-time operational issues
  and top-down process to define strategic
  direction.
• Foster closer collaboration among groups
  developing NGN related standards.
• Coordination among ATIS committees and external
  standards organizations already takes place on a
  regular basis.
• Continue to advance specifications/ standards for
  enabling the next generation converged, service
  oriented network.

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Challenges

• Realization of convergence and NG-service
  delivery to the end user will require the
  interaction of non-traditional telco aspects such
  as web services, data models, and applications.
• To enable the network to support NGN services,
  advanced application development and end user
  demands, management of content, settlement, user
  profiles, security, and QoS, across multiple
  domains and networks are required.
• Logical orchestration of common service functions
  between network architectures and resources,
  whether physical or virtualized, must be
  developed.
• Definition of common industry best practices and
  policies is needed to define/determine the
  accessibility/availability of service enablers
  and data to outside application/service
  developers (i.e., what, when and how).

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Next Steps/Actions

• ATIS will continue to advance convergence through
  the development of standards across technology
  and/or service domains to meet consumer demands
  for converged services/applications anytime,
  anywhere, by any means.
• Faster development of new and converged services
  is dependent upon underlying service enablers and
  applications. ATIS will continue its efforts to
  advance the service creation environment in the
  NGN.
• ATIS will continue to develop standards needed to
  ensure that rich content and features can be
  delivered to the end-user.
• ATIS realizes the success of NGN depends upon
  global interoperability of NGN services and
  therefore will continue its outreach and
  interaction with other global standards
  organizations.

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Supplemental Slides
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ATIS NGN Activities

• Service/Network Convergence
• To support equipment interworking for the
  evolution of NGNs, standards were investigated to
  specify core service requirements, definitions,
  use cases and a bootstrap of the NGN
  architecture.
• Identity Management (IdM)
• Participants of ATIS Packet Technologies and
  Systems Committee (PTSC) are developing IdM
  deliverables and coordinating and aligning their
  work with ITU-T Study Groups.
• Next Generation Carrier Interconnect (NGCI)
• Participants from ATIS technical committees
  addressing standards issues to ensure TDM-to-IP
  and IP-to-IP interconnection to deliver rich
  content and features to the end-user over a range
  of access network types while considering QoS,
  security, and policy management.

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ATIS NGN Activities

• Service Oriented Networks (SON)
• To develop and deliver complex services
  expediently across and combining the aspects of
  the domains of IMS, SOA, and Web2.0, the
  standardization of fundamental interfaces and the
  methods exposure of enabling elements to
  developers across a wide range of expertise must
  be investigated.
• Home Networking (HNET)
• Investigating the issues associated with the
  deployment of IP-based Services in the Home
  Network. As the fourth network, the Home
  Network provides the opportunity to deliver NGN
  based services to the customer premises.

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ATIS NGN Activities

• ATIS Committees continue their work to address
  issues in the NGN space. There are numerous work
  items currently being address in the following
  areas
• Unified User Profile
• Security
• Service Decoupling
• Presence
• Service Transparency
• QoS/QoS Signalling
• Resource Management
• Resource and Admission Control
• Settlement
• NGN Management (OAMP)
• Location Based Services
• Multicast
• Address Resolution (E.164/SIP)
• Digital Rights Management
• User Control of Profile/Services
• Media Resource Functions
• Group Management
• Emergency Related Services

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ATIS NGN Activities

• Numerous work items underway to specifically
  address IP-IP interconnect including the
  following areas
• Services Adaptation
• Next Generation Interconnect Architecture
• Connectivity
• Association between call control and media
  control including interactions with the control
  plane in lower layers
• Presence
• Access Network Attachment
• Policy Decision/Enforcement and Distribution
• Session Border Controller (SBC) functions
• Network and Traffic Management Functions
• Interconnection Service Requirements
• Service Specific Requirements Consideration for
  SLAs
• Form and Agreement Templates
• OAMP