What Operators need from NGN

Standardisation

Stewart Alexander
WTSA ITU Standards Manager, BT Group
Summary

• Business drivers for NGN

• Requirements for NGN
• Technical view of NGN
• What standards do we need for NGN?
• What do we want from ITU?

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What’s the Current situation?
• Telecom winter exaggerating the cost of multiple
standards – e.g. multiple networks in mobile
• All telcos under pressure to reduce expenditure on
standards
• Cost of interworking is killing us
• More and more uses are global (mobile, WLAN, Internet
etc) with more and more users travelling.
• Standards must be global
• Growing complexity from multiple fora as groups become
frustrated with speed of traditional standards bodies
• Need for a radical drive to the NGN – speed is essential.

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Why do we need an NGN?

• Make it easier to create new services

– Faster
– More people can create services
• Make it easier to buy and use services
– Give customers greater choice
• Make it simpler to deliver and maintain services
– Process automation
• 30-40% cost reduction

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What does it mean?

• New services
– Open APIs and applications platforms
– Mobile enabled
– Re-usable components/capabilities
– Build on broadband capability
• Cost reduction
– Not enough to do efficiencies and automation
– Radical network convergence to fewer networks
and systems carrying more services

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Cost Reduction

• Efficiencies and automation not enough

– need to enable customers and partners in the
service management processes
• Radical steps required
– need closure of legacy networks and systems
• Have to include future of PSTN (voice)
• More important to converge in access and
backhaul than in core
– because opex and capex centred there

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21st Century Services Vision

“A world where all our customers feel empowered

and are treated as individuals”

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 Today’s Networks
Cost
B C

• Built on “service=technology”
stove pipes.
• Every network service has its
own network platform:
Frame Relay
Internet

– FR, ATM, MPLS IP VPN,

ATM

SDH

Internet, PSTN etc.

• We want a converged multi-
service platform to deliver all
services.

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 21st Century Network Vision
Logical ~80,000 ~100,000 ~1000 + ~170 Core Data
Nodes PCPs Remote Voice Switches Switches Centre
in the Concs, and Data Cross (DMSU / NGS)
Access DLAMS Connects
Network and Data
Today Muxes International
Networks
Internet
Peering

End
Customer

~30,000 ~100 ~10

Begin Data
Multi- Metro Core
Logical Centre
Fibre Service Routers Routers
Nodes
to the Access
PCP Devices
Aggregation Service Edge Core

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Provide a common Intelligence Layer
Intelligence layer

Application layer – Web Services .Net J2EE

Flexible user interface Web, DTMF,Voice

Intelligence Layer

Intelligence Layer

Mediation and Billing

Authentication Presence Monitor Control Accounting
Authorisation
Common Data Model – LDAP interface

Interface Protocols – INAP, MGCP, SNMP, CORBA, GMPLS, etc

Transmission Layer
PSTN
and
new generation Data Internet 3rd party
PSTN networks backbone networks

Intelligent Service Layer – controlling IP and PSTN

- and allowing controlled 3rd party access
 Overall Architecture
External Enterprise
Commercial & Customer Management
Interfaces Management
Partners Selling, Customer & Channel Management
& OLOs Billing
Supplier
Proposition Creation & Handling Management
Trading ICT Contract Handling
Gateways Front Office functions

Authentication & Authorisation

Portfolio
Customers Management
and users Outsourcing Management

Portal Service Management Business

Service Execution
Functions Intelligence
Service
Application Content
Assurance
BT People Profile Knowledge
Directory Management
Network location
Service &
Application Session control Fulfillment Collaboration
exposure
Network Resource
Presence Finance
Model
Mediation & Pricing
3rd party APs Messaging
Business
Connectivity Media Service Management agents Support
Personal resources Resources
Comms
Devices

Resource Management
Access, Core on-demand Computing
Enterprise
Aggregate Optics (application hosting)
& Metro Network Network
& & Management Engineering
Premises
Backhaul MPLS
Workforce Management
Technology Management
& Professional Services
21C Network
WTSA Integration & application development framework
Highest Priority NGN Standards
Requirements
• Multi-service carrier-scale core
– enabled by underlying ‘MPLSv2’ network
• 3GPP Architecture
– extended to Wi-Fi and fixed Broadband access
• Session based QoS
• Session Control
– extensions to SIP with full multimedia capability
• Billing and charging (data interchange billing) between operators
• Manageability
– commoditised componentised OSS
• Security
– authentication across networks / operators
• Home Gateways/Networks

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What do we need to do generally..?

• Prioritise.
• Position fora, regional bodies and ITU into a
consistent approach to lead to global standards –
an architecture of standards bodies.
• Support the NGN architecture – will require us to
merge over traditional boundaries.
• Give equal weight to systems and networks

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ITU is important to NGN for:

• Access Networks – SG15

• Core Networks – SG13
• Optical Networking – SG15
• Spectrum – ITU-R
• Numbering & Addressing – SG2
• Signalling for QoS across multiple networks –
SG11
• Services and applications – SG16
• Security – SG17
• NGN Focus Group – to get it started and bring it
all together

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Other Important Bodies for NGN

• 3GPP/TISPAN – IMS
• ATIS – US carrier requirements
• DSL Forum – remote management of CPE
• IETF – IPv6, SIP extensions, MPLS, etc
• TMF – standardised OSS components
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) – (Mobile)
Applications, DRM
• Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) – role of Ethernet in
transport network
• IEEE 802.11x – Wi-Fi hotspots

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 What do we want from ITU?

• Global Standards, speedily and efficiently

produced

How do we get this?

• A single ITU-T Study Group for core NGN
studies
• A managed release program
• A co-ordinated ITU-T approach

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Conclusions

• NGN will only succeed if based on globally

standardised components
• ITU must work with ETSI, ATIS and other
fora to achieve standards for NGN
• ITU can provide strategic focus for NGN
standards – but must create SG with
sufficient critical mass to address NGN
issues

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