Evolution of the Converged NGN Service Platforms Towards Future Networks

Eugen Mikóczy, Ivan Kotuliak and Oskar van Deventer
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Eugen Mikóczy: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia
Ivan Kotuliak: Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 3, 812 19 Bratislava, Slovakia
Oskar van Deventer: TNO, P.O. Box 5050, 2600 GB Delft, The Netherlands

Future Internet, 2011, vol. 3, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: This article presents a comparison of main characteristics of the Next Generation Networks (NGN) and Future Generation Internet (FGI). The aim is to discuss and compare two approaches to Future Networks (FN) and services: the evolution of NGN, and the revolutionary approach of a new FGI. We present both frameworks from the services point of view as they are delivered to the end-user, as well as from the architectural point of view. We compare selected properties of both approaches to explain commonalities and differences. Their challenges are similar: managing the quality of experience, mobility, security, scalability and providing openness to applications. Based on this comparison, we evaluate possible areas for future convergence in the approach of the two architectures to the Future Network concept. Our analysis shows that despite their different backgrounds, the internet’s FGI and telco’s NGN are not that different after all. The convergence of the two approaches therefore seems the only logical way forward.

Keywords: NGN; converged applications; IPTV; Future Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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