NGN

NEXT GENERATION NETWORKING

NEXT GENERATION NETWORK
 A broad term to describe some key
architectural evolutions in telecommunication
core and access networks that will be
deployed over the next 5 to 10 years.
 One network transports all information and
services (voice, data and all sorts of media,
such as video) by encapsulating these into
packets.
 “All IP”
NGN
 A packet based network able to provide
services including Telecommunication
Services and able to make use of multiple
broadband, Quality of Service enabled
transport technologies and in which service
related functions are independent from
underlying transport related technologies.
 It offers unrestricted access by users to
different service providers.
NGN CHARACTERISTICS
 New telecommunications network for
broadband fixed access
 Facilitates convergence of networks and
services
 Enables different business models across
access, core network and service domains
 Will be an IP based network
 Enables service mobility
 Enables interworking towards circuit
switched voice
Architectural changes
 In the Core Network, NGN implies a
consolidation of several transport networks
each historically built for a different service
into one core transport network, often based
on IP and Ethernet.
 Implies the migration of voice from a circuit
switched architecture to VoIP and also
migration of legacy services such X.25,
Frame Relay to a new service like IP VPN.
Architectural Changes
 In the Wired Access Network, NGN implies
the migration from the dual system of legacy
voice next to xDSL setup in the local
exchanges to a converged setup in which the
DSLAM’s integrate voice ports or VoIP,
making it possible to remove the voice
switching infrastructure from the exchange.
Architectural Changes
 In the cable access network, NGN
convergence implies migration of constant bit
rate voice to Cable Labs Packet Cable
standards that provide VoIP and Session
Initiation Protocol services.
IMPLEMENTATIONS
 21CN – 21st Century Networks – another
loose term for NGN in UK – British Telecom
 The first company in the UK to roll out an
NGN was THUS plc in 1999.
THANK YOU

PHIL LOMBOY