Summary

Recommendation ITU-T Y.2240 provides requirements and capabilities for a service integration and delivery environment in NGN (NGN-SIDE) in order to support the following main functionalities in the NGN-SIDE ecosystem:

–           integration of resources from different domains (e.g., telecommunication domain (fixed and mobile networks), broadcasting domain, internet domain or content provider domain) over NGN;

–           adaptation and abstraction of resources from different domains;

–           resource brokering for mediation among applications and resources;

–           support of application development environment for application developers;

–           support of different service interfaces across ANI, UNI, SNI and NNI for exposure of NGN-SIDE capabilities and access to resources in different domains;

–           provision of mechanisms for the support of diverse applications including cloud services, machine to machine, and ubiquitous sensor network applications;

–           provision of mechanisms for the support of applications making usage of context based information;

–           provision of mechanisms for content management.