FORUM ON NEXT GENERATION STANDARDIZATION
(Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7-10 April 2009)
SESSION 3:
“The Asia Pacific region development issues
and case studies related to NGN”
Objectives: This session focused on ITU-D activities to help
ICT development and implementation in developing
countries with special reference to NGN. In addition, the
activities of the ITU-D Regional offices were highlighted.
Bharat Bhatia
President TEMA &
Regional Director Motorola
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7-10 April 2009
Highlights from Presentation 1
“Launching an NGN commercial service NTT’s approach”
By Tatsuro Murakami
NTT Information Sharing laboratory Group
Covered NTT’s history and plan for the NGN
Since NTT first provided an IP network service for Internet
access, NTT has promoted optical access and triple play services.
To meet its timetable to get a 9M optical access subscriber base
and establish revenue source from triple play, NTT has just
started NGN commercial service.
The NGN started in limited areas such as Tokyo and Osaka as an
upgrade of the existing IP network service.
The NGN will cover a wide area in short time frame and create
new services aimed at new business areas.
NTT’s approach to launching the NGN
NTT’s approach is based on synchronizing the development of
services and infrastructure.
NTT’s subscriber base and revenue source will be migrated from
IP broadband to the NGN
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Highlights from Presentation 2
“Developing NGN Ecosystem for emerging
markets: India case study”
By Satya N. Gupta, ITU Expert, (Chief Regulatory Advisor, BT GS, India and SAARC):
Introduction to NGN Ecosystem in Asia
Regulatory Challenges for NGN
Existing licensing regime - India
NGN in India – SWOT analysis of present
framework
Regulator’s consultation process
Way forward
Unified Licensing
Phased Migration
Functional Separation – Wholesale concept
NGN Regulatory ecosystem for emerging markets
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Highlights from Presentation 3
“Overview of ITU-D Sector: Participation in
NGN Standardization Activities”
By Sameer Sharma, Senior Advisor, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific,
ITU-D is actively involved in NGN planning and
standardization activities taking several steps
including
Guidelines on Migration Strategies towards NGN
Regional Development Forums on NGN
Study Group Questions on NGN
Trainings Courses on NGN
Direct Country Assistance on NGN Planning
Enhancing role of developing countries in the process
and use of standardization through bridging the
standardization gap by close collaboration among
stakeholders
Global standards are only truly global if developing
country needs are taken into account
Active participation and contribution from Developing
countries is key to NGN standardization process
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Conclusions / Recommendations
Some AP countries, particularly Japan and Korea
are well ahead in NGN implementation and can be
used as a role model for NGN implementation in
other countries.
Regulatory changes are key to successful
implementation of NGN. ITU-D should develop
standard practices and model regulations to
promote NGN standardization in Asian countries
ITU-T should organize more workshops in Major
Asian countries to promote standardization.
Administrations need to keep the following in mind
while redesigning their regulations for NGN:
Unified Licensing
Phased Migration
Functional Separation
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