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Question 9/9

Question 9/9 - Requirements for advanced service capabilities over broadband cable home networks

(Continuation of Question 9/9)

Motivation

The increasing integration and convergence of traditional cable television technologies and emerging information/communication technologies (e.g. cloud computing, software defined networking, network functions virtualisation) are enabling advanced capabilities for supporting new advanced services on cable television networks. Question 9/9 will focus on requirements for advanced service capabilities over broadband cable home networks.

In the future, driven by the ever increasing demand of customer for a better lifestyle through smart home, the broadband cable home networks will not only deliver traditional broadband services and multimedia content to subscribers, but also enable advanced smart cable television services (e.g. multi-screen services, multi-device services, etc.) and enable additional smart home services (e.g. home automation, home energy management, home-monitoring, home healthcare and education, etc.). This will benefit consumers, multi-service operators (MSOs) and third application providers by providing advanced services over broadband cable networks.

To meet the customer's increasing demand on any-screen and anywhere, certain functional requirements such as multi-screen play, mobile-device apply and remote access are needed. Interconnecting and interworking between wired and wireless broadband cable home networks should be supported.

To ensure appropriate quality of experience (QoE), certain functional, application/service creation and application programming interface (API) requirements need to be incorporated into the requirements for service enablement. Increasing high bandwidth and content delivery services need to be supported.

The resulting software stack will be capable of providing high bandwidth services, content delivery services and lifestyle services. It will include support for technologies such as cloud computing, software defined networking/network functions virtualisation (SDN/NFV), IPv6 and machine-to-machine/Internet of things (M2M/IoT). Consideration should be given to support of legacy installed base along with IP network services.

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Study items to be considered include, but are not limited to: Tasks

Tasks include, but are not limited to: An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the Study Group 9 work programme (http://itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?sp=15&q=9/9).

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