Strategies for the deployment of NGN in a broadband environment
Preface
Foreword
Executive summary
Table of contents
1 Introduction
2 Background to NGN
2.1 Definition of NGN core and access
2.2 Broadband definition
2.3 NGN based services and economic benefits
2.4 The economic aspects of NGN migration issues
2.5 The key questions to be answered
3 Example NGN approaches and issues
3.1 Policy
3.1.1 Spectrum
3.1.2 Services
3.1.3 Frameworks
3.1.4 Education and content supply
3.1.5 Summary of policy issues
3.2 Regulation
3.2.1 The role of regulation with NGN
3.2.2 Altered approaches may be needed
3.2.3 Functional and structural separation
3.3 Funding
3.3.1 Government funding
3.3.2 Localised government funding
3.3.3 Public-private funding
3.3.4 Commercial (private) funding
3.4 Broadband deployment economics
3.5 Technical factors
3.6 Consumer impacts
4 Key messages for NGN broadband deployment and some possible approaches
5 Key messages for promoting growth in data communications in developing countries