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COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks

COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks Work programme topic: ICT-2011.1.1 Future Networks Type of project: Large scale integrating project Project start: 1 st January 2013 Project duration: 36 months. COMBO project motivation. COMBO main focus. Context

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COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks

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  1. COnvergence of fixed and Mobile BrOadband access/aggregation networks Work programme topic: ICT-2011.1.1 Future Networks Type of project: Large scale integrating project Project start: 1st January 2013 Project duration: 36 months

  2. COMBO project motivation COMBO mainfocus • Context • In the past, fixed and mobile access networks have been optimized and evolved independently, with partly contradicting trends • Access infrastructures represent long term investments (> 50% of total ICT) and about 90% of network energy consumption: a sustainable network evolution strategy is required for the next decade so as to: • increase performance for fixed and mobile access (Gigabit society) • lower cost and energy consumption per bit

  3. COMBO technical approach • COMBO technical drivers • Ultimate COMBO architectures will target Next Generation Point of Presence (NG-POP) and combine two important aspects of fixed / mobile network convergence: • Functional convergence, i.e. the convergence of fixed and mobile network functions • Structural convergence, i.e. the convergence of fixed and mobile infrastructures and equipment

  4. COMBO objectives and impacts • Large scale integrating project (IP), objective 1.1 (Future Networks) COMBO targets a unified access and aggregation network architecture allowing fixed and mobile networks to converge (Fixed / Mobile Convergence, FMC), enabling: • optimal and seamless quality of experience for the end-user • optimized network infrastructure ensuring reduced cost and energy consumption • Objectives • Defineoptimised FMC architectures • Assess multi-operator FMC scenarios • Demonstrateexperimentally FMC in lab tests and field trials • Drive standardization bodies with respect to FMC architectures • Main impacts and opportunities • Increase economic and energy efficiency of access/aggregation networks • Consolidate European operators, industry (large corporations and SMEs) and research in this crucial network evolution • Build common product offers and generate IPR • Drive standards and regulation

  5. Backup slides

  6. Expected COMBO impacts on the delivery model for convergent services Enhanced quality of experience for access to multimedia contents: Adequate distribution of content closer to the user, thanks to network openness, thus lowering network transport cost and making available broader range of contents. NGPOP concept will benefit from processing capacity available at the access/aggregation node level, e.g. to adapt when needed the distributed content to devices and access resource capacity Improved control of heterogeneous access resources: Unified control of heterogeneous access technologies allowed by FMC architectures Real-time dynamic resource allocation to service/traffic demand and terminal capacity Advanced load balancing and scheduling techniques between access links Handover and service continuity schemes over various technologies will be provided in a dynamic way, avoiding un-necessary tunnelling and traffic indirections Unified user’s authentication and access scheme: Native homogenization of identification, authentication and reachability of the user over heterogeneous terminals and access technologies Easier service provision in multiple operators scenarios, avoiding issues faced today in fixed (generally “access line” based) and mobile (“SIM card” based) networks

  7. Client device scenarios versus COMBO solutions

  8. COMBO targets an open solution enabling interoperability of different carriers and fair sharing of resources: • Establish performance (e.g. QoS) and traffic management for fair sharing of total available resources • Providing tools allowing each operator (mobile or fixed) to control the SLA agreements without getting information of the traffic for competing operators => This will strengthen the competition and will reduce the barriers for new entrants Openness and flexibility of COMBO solutions for network operators and service providers Oneexample Mobile operatoronlysharing NG-POP and tower but otherwiseonlyownequipmentused OP2 providesconvergednetworktotheotheroperators and hostsco-locationpointat NGPOP and tower OP3 usestheco-locationpoints of OP1 and also the FMC networkresources and functions of OP2 OP1 OP2 OP3

  9. COMBO consortium

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