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Tomorrow’s connected world: smart, simple and efficient
Communication in tomorrow’s connected world will bring high-definition cinemas online, and always-on connectivity to the Internet will be ubiquitous. By 2015, there will be a global community of approximately five billion people communicating, collaborating and socializing. They’ll employ high-speed connectivity, various multimedia devices and innovative Internet applications.
However, these opportunities are accompanied by challenges. For Communications Service Providers (CSPs) , subscriber growth will come primarily from the emerging markets where ARPUs will be low. Tomorrow’s networks will therefore be based on a simpler, flat architecture that minimizes OPEX. This will allow CSPs to meet the needs of those markets.
The new architecture will also address another challenge. It will allow today’s network to migrate to an all-IP model that can accommodate a huge increase in traffic and offset it against a lower growth in ARPU. Traffic could grow 100-fold by 2015, and ARPUs are clearly not going to match that figure.
Smart connectivity: an innovative concept
Tomorrow’s networks will be smarter as well as simpler. Smart connectivity is an innovative concept that will provide powerful connectivity solutions for heterogeneous networks. It will enable easy, transparent and efficient access to services — anytime and anywhere — on the users’ preferred device. When implemented, it will generate significant benefits for consumers, CSPs, and enterprises.
New flat architecture to minimize costs
In the new architecture, there is a connectivity domain and an application domain. Session Control, an Intelligent IP Edge and Identity Management will connect them. This allows opportunities for CSPs to market cohesive offers. The network will be based on a simple, flat, all-IP architecture.
Switching and routing at the lowest network layer
By 2015, there will be one global, efficient transport network, and by that date traffic will have grown dramatically. Efficient, cost-effective transportation will be needed to address this issue. It can be realized by combining Carrier Ethernet with traffic-shaping and advanced optical transport technologies.
Quality of Service to manage network resources
Quality of Service solutions provide a wide range of options that allow CSPs to allocate and better manage network resources, thereby reducing cost. They allow networks that transport multimedia traffic to be given different priorities, for both media type and subscriber class. In turn, this delivers a high Quality of Experience and ensures that premium services get premium treatment.
A vision of tomorrow’s connected world
In addition to the wide-ranging vision of that connected world, there is a detailed implementation strategy for CSPs. The vision is based on generic parameters that define the market, the network architecture, and the underlying technologies. The strategy has been created to support today’s decision makers and their next-generation network planning teams