Summary

Recommendation ITU-T Y.3321 specifies the requirements and capability framework of S-NICE (Software-defined Network Intelligence Capability Enhancement).

NICE (see Recommendation ITU-T Y.2301) is an enhanced next generation network (NGN) (i.e., an evolved version of NGN) supporting extended or additional intelligent capabilities for provisioning of services according to requirements of users and application providers. S-NICE is a specific implementation of NICE, making use of software-defined networking technologies, and its key objective is the identification of the NICE implementation requirements when relevant NICE features are supported by software-defined networking technologies.