Next-Generation Network (Ngn) Drivers And Strategies

Next generation networks, or NGNs, have become big news. This is especially the case for European incumbents as first BT, and then others, pour significant amounts of investment and marketing budget into this area. For most, if not all, of these big players, NGN is now critical to their continued success and perhaps even survival. There is still a debate around speed and extent of deployment as they are all operating under different market conditions, but the questions around 'should we or shouldn't we?' all seem to have been answered. This report looks at the current drivers for NGN deployment by incumbent operators, the links with IMS and any plans for fixed mobile convergence in their strategy development.