The vision and roadmap of future networking, to be commercially successful, is an important issue to be addressed. Next Generation Networks (NGN) is not a myth and can be realised today by aggregating available technologies spread across all kinds of access technologies, photonic core networks and well-established transmission networks, based on datacom and telecom offerings. The evolution of all these technologies are already converging at network level with internet protocols (IPv4 and IPv6).
The deployment of NGNs will create a great opportunity for new services offering, more integrated features, and a more extensible and flexible platform for future applications. Based upon the Internet Protocol (IP), the convergence between public switched telephone network (PSTN), digital subscriber line (DSL), cable television (CATV), wireless local area network (WLAN) and mobile technologies is a task that many believe would be impossible without the development of global NGN standards.
The objectives of this conference are two fold: first, to discuss the current trends, status and future evolution of Next Generation Networks standards. Central to these are: what areas of technology innovation hold the greatest promise for NGNs; what are the most innovative applications and services possible with NGNs? The issues revolving around NGN architecture, NGN technology and quality of service requirements and evolutions will be explored.
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