CONVERGENCE OF SERVICES AND NETWORKS TOWARDS IP

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CONVERGENCE OF SERVICES AND NETWORKS TOWARDS IP
27 October 2000 - European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)

Heidelberg. The setting up of EURESCOM's work programme for 2001 is approaching its final phase. After a tough selection process from projects proposed by the EURESCOM shareholders there are currently 32 research projects in the final choice. Their topics give an idea of the innovative trends for the next years. Dominant topics for next year are UMTS, Quality of Service and convergence towards IP.

There is a strong technical and economic pressure to migrate PSTN, IP and mobile services towards a converged IP network spanning multiple operators. Telcos and ISPs need to design interoperable IP network systems that are capable of delivering differentiated Quality of Service to such IP-based services. Telephony over IP is such an example as it will be one of the first services to be implemented. UMTS packet data services might be the next. A new proposal 'Inter-Operator IP QoS Framework' will build on the work already done in EURESCOM by validating and enhancing the established inter-operator IP QoS Provisioning framework both from a technical and a business perspective. The proposal will also extend the IIQP framework to support QoS and interoperability between UMTS and Internet.

Nowadays, the provisioning of a wide array of services over the Internet by telcos and ISPs increasingly depends on the orchestration of heterogeneous, widely distributed software components, which can be owned by different service providers and reside and operate over diverse networks. In such a scenario, designing and providing complex, value-added services, maintaining them, and ensuring their normal quality levels with traditional service deployment, provisioning, monitoring and management becomes increasingly difficult and costly. The proposed project 'On-line Validation of Complex Component-based Internet Services' aims at mastering the complexity of the Internet services through an automated infrastructure for the monitoring and control of services.

Generally, the participation in EURESCOM projects is limited to EURESCOM shareholders. However, suppliers and vendors have the opportunity to participate in several projects, after the work programme will have been approved by the General Assembly on 12th December. 'We have already co-operated successfully with major suppliers and vendors in the past, and would like to expand this fruitful kind of co-operation in 2001,' says Harald Johansen, the responsible senior manager at EURESCOM. From the 32 proposed projects 29 are contemplating to work with suppliers and vendors.

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About: European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH (EURESCOM)
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