INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
FOCUS GROUP ON FUTURE
NETWORKS
TELECOMMUNICATION
STANDARDIZATION SECTOR
FG-FN OD-67
Original: English
STUDY PERIOD 2009-2012
7th FG-FN meeting:
Busan, Rep of Korea, 26-29 October 2010
OUTPUT DOCUMENT 67
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Title:
Living list of FNvision
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Information
1.
Introduction
This document is a living list of ‘Future Networks: design goals and promising technologies (FNvision)’
document.
2.
Material from a working document at #7 Busan meeting
Shown below is a material from a working document at #7 Busan meeting by Alex Galis (UCL).
1. Subtitle for the Vision Document:
“Design Goals and Objectives for Future Networks”
2. FN High Level Characterisation
NGN
“A Next generation network (NGN) is a packet-based network which can provide services including
Telecommunication Services and able to make use of multiple broadband, Quality of Serviceenabled 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. It supports generalized mobility which will allow consistent and ubiquitous provision of
services to users.”
Future Networks (FN)
“Future Networks (FN) are represented by the interconnection and interoperations of several
heterogeneous and dynamic networks of shared virtualised resources.
(Resource Characteristics) Shared technical resources such as processing, storage and
communication resources of Future Networks are to be combined, across multiple domains and
used in a simple and pervasive way by any services.
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(Service Characteristics) FN can provide services of any complexity including ICT,
Telecommunication and Universal Services. FN should support the complete lifecycle of services
that can be primarily constructed by recombining existing elements in new and creative ways.
(Service-awareness Characteristics) FN provide embedded service-awareness enablers including
virtualisation functionality, resource identification and search functionality, in-system selfmanagement functionality, data & content-awareness functionality, system energy management
functionality, self-optimization and management functionality, programmable functionality, which
are interworking with, complementing and enhancing the use of multiple underlying connectivity
and transport-related technologies.
(Operation Characteristics) FN encompass all levels of provisioning, operation, interoperability and
interfaces for enhanced manageability, for diverse services and for optimal access and utilisation
of shared resources.
(Access Characteristics) FN offer unrestrictive access by users to different service providers. FN
offer to service providers qualified access to a set of network embedded resource-facing services,
providing scalable, self-managed inexpensive networking infrastructures on demand.”
3. NGN Vs. FN
The fundamental difference between FN and NGN is the switch from ‘packet-based’ systems such
as those using Internet Protocol (IP) with a separate transport and service strata to a service and
management aware network, which is based on shared virtualised processing, storage and
communication resources.
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