DSTI/ICCP/CISP(2007)2/FINAL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONVERGENCE AND NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS MAIN POINTS.........................................3
1.
Introduction........................................................................................................................................6
2.
Convergence and NGN.......................................................................................................................7
What is NGN? ..........................................................................................................................................9
Next generation access networks ...........................................................................................................10
Competing or complementary networks?...............................................................................................12
Next generation core networks...............................................................................................................13
NGN drivers and impact ........................................................................................................................15
Internet versus NGN...............................................................................................................................17
3.
Policy challenges............................................................................................................................18
Economic regulation: Competition and the development of next generation access .............................19
A next generation access divide? ...........................................................................................................24
Access to next generation access fibre networks ...................................................................................25
The way forward for fibre regulation.....................................................................................................30
Adapting interconnection frameworks ...................................................................................................33
Numbering, naming and addressing.......................................................................................................34
Universal Service and next generation access........................................................................................35
Emergency calling..................................................................................................................................39
NGN lawful interception ........................................................................................................................40
Fixed-Mobile convergence.....................................................................................................................41
Efficient spectrum management.............................................................................................................41
4.
Broadcasting convergence into IP-based networks: competition or consolidation? .......................42
What has changed?.................................................................................................................................44
A converged approach to content...........................................................................................................45
5.
The institutional environment..........................................................................................................49
6.
NGN and network security..............................................................................................................50
GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................................................54
NOTES ..........................................................................................................................................................55