Ngn convergence

DSTI/ICCP/CISP(2007)2/FINAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONVERGENCE AND NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS MAIN POINTS.........................................3 Introduction........................................................................................................................................6 Convergence andNGN.......................................................................................................................7 What is NGN? ..........................................................................................................................................9 Next generation access networks ...........................................................................................................10 Competing or complementarynetworks?...............................................................................................12 Next generation core networks...............................................................................................................13 NGN drivers and impact ........................................................................................................................15 Internet versusNGN...............................................................................................................................17 3. Policy challenges............................................................................................................................18 Economic regulation: Competition and the development of next generation access .............................19 A next generation access divide?...........................................................................................................24 Access to next generation access fibre networks ...................................................................................25 The way forward for fibre regulation.....................................................................................................30 Adaptinginterconnection frameworks ...................................................................................................33 Numbering, naming and addressing.......................................................................................................34 Universal Service and next generation access........................................................................................35Emergency calling..................................................................................................................................39 NGN lawful interception........................................................................................................................40 Fixed-Mobileconvergence.....................................................................................................................41 Efficient spectrum management.............................................................................................................41 4. Broadcasting convergence into IP-based networks: competition or consolidation? .......................42 What haschanged?.................................................................................................................................44 A converged approach to content...........................................................................................................45 5. The institutional environment..........................................................................................................49 6. NGN and networksecurity..............................................................................................................50 GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................................................54 NOTES ..........................................................................................................................................................55 1. 2.

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