Facing Up to Challenges, Seizing Opportunities

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Facing Up to Challenges, Seizing Opportunities

• John Visser
• Phone [phone] Fax 1
  613-765-6257 Mobile [phone]
• Email jvisser_at_nortelnetworks.com

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What is happening?

• Unprecedented changes occurring at unprecedented
  speed
• Major technology shifts mean major growth
  opportunities and major risks
• Major opportunities for synergies, reuse through
  convergence telecoms/IT, fixed/mobile, broadcast
• Regional and global NGN standards initiatives
  already underway

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Challenges

• A Revolution is underway
• circuit to packet
• single medium (voice only) to multimedia
• monopolistic to competitive
• fixed to mobile
• discrete to converged
• How do we meet these challenges?
• What are the opportunities we can seize?

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Communications in the Global Economy

• Yankee Group, News Release 24 Jun 03
• estimate 18.6 percent of worlds population
  currently has mobile phones
• global wireless user base will increase 49 over
  next 4 years, reach 1.72 billion by 2007
• global cellular subscriber revenue will grow from
  387B in 2002 to 584B in 2007
• Similar in value to crude oil production

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NGN Essence

• NGN is the current buzzword
• What does NGN mean?
• packet-switched core network
• multimedia (based on 3GPP Rel. 6 IMS)
• mobile (all dimensions) an integral part
• access independence essential
• SG 13 definition provided in a separate
  presentation

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Opportunities

• NGN global consistency is a target to which
  everyone subscribes
• essential for an increasingly interconnected
  world
• immediate value to developed and developing
  markets

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Moving forward

• NGN is our opportunity to move everyone into the
  future together
• everyone must ensure they are well organized to
  help move the yardsticks forward
• existing relationships and cooperation agreements
  provide the needed connections (or provide the
  basis for additional connections)
• A globally unified NGN approach will succeed!

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Challenges for ITU-T

• NGN is one of the key challenges facing ITU-T
• Other significant challenges include
• performance (QoS)
• security
• management
• transport
• etc.

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ITU-T Response

• ITU-T is a responsive organization as
  demonstrated through adoption of AAP, electronic
  working methods, focus groups, classes of
  membership, etc.
• procedures and working methods arestate of the
  art
• But organization of technical work issub-optimal

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ITU-T Response

• Discussions on technical work organization have
  progressed slowly
• Essential to get unstuck
• must make progress on structural issues
• must be seen to make progress on structural
  issues
• WTSA-2004 offers a crucial and timely opportunity
  to demonstrate consensus on the way forward

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GSC-9 Influence

• It is in our common interest for ITU-T to succeed
  in global aspects of NGN
• part of GSC mandate is to advise ITU-T with the
  aim of strengthening its role in global
  standardization
• Opportunity to input a consistent and coherent
  message to the Assembly on the urgent need to
  optimize working arrangements to the benefit of
  the global standards community