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Eurescom and the Fireworks Group Towards interconnection of multimedia service networks
The Fireworks Group was set up in July last year by operators in order to profile standards. Eurescom offered to assist the group in their mission, and in March 2004 the Fireworks Group and Eurescom launched a first project on “Interconnection of Multimedia Service Networks”. The background for this project is that, from the perspective of operators, the interconnection of IP based networks providing multimedia services has not been given adequate consideration by standardisation yet. Interconnection based on the work done to date is likely to suffer from non-guaranteed QoS, security risks, and inefficient use of network resources. Interworking is likely to be achieved only by bilateral agreements, thus preventing the interoperability of many services. The project will identify the requirements in terms of architectural alignment, protocol selection and profiling, gap analysis, and selection of network elements for interconnect. Identified problems will be targeted at the appropriate standards bodies that will provide the detailed technical solutions. The work will be phased. The first phase started in March has a duration of three months and will demonstrate the viability of the approach in a short period of time. The seven work packages will include the architectural framework, business rationale, signalling, media, management, numbering, and IP stack. The project partners are BT, Deutsche Telekom, Eurescom, Telecom Italia, Telenor, TeliaSonera, and Telefónica. France Télécom has recently decided to join.
First drafts of deliverables on the architectural framework and the business rationale have already been prepared. The final deliverables are planned to be available by end of June. More information on this project is available at: www.eurescom.de/public/projects/P1400-series/P1421 Please send us your comments on this article. |
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