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Table I.1 – Differences between NICE capabilities and S-NICE capabilities

Capabilities group NICE capabilities S-NICE capabilities
Policy The policy enforcement capability The policy enforcement capability of S-NICE
enforcement of NICE is required to support: is aligned with that of NICE with support of
• policy enforcement the following additional requirements:
requirements in [ITU-T Y.2111]; • accepting instructions from the policy
• enforcement of on-demand control capability of S-NICE and
bandwidth and QoS levels in performing actions such as packet
order to satisfy on-demand forwarding and packet dropping;
requirements from users and • support of SDN related protocols.
application providers;
• enforcement of bandwidth and
QoS levels based on content
and context analysis results.
Traffic The traffic scheduling enforcement The traffic scheduling enforcement
scheduling capability of NICE is required to capability of S-NICE is aligned with that of
enforcement support: NICE with support of the following additional
• enforcement of traffic requirements:
scheduling based on traffic • accepting instructions from the traffic
localization schemes; scheduling capability of S-NICE and
• enforcement of traffic performing actions such as input and
scheduling based on optimal output port selection as well as route
selection of delivery nodes; selection;
• enforcement of traffic • support of SDN related protocols.
scheduling based on intelligent
route selection and adjustment
based on routing policies;
• enforcement of traffic
scheduling based on resource
allocation using network
virtualization.
Access and The access and core transport The access and core transport capabilities of
core capabilities of NICE are required to S-NICE are aligned with that of NICE with
transport align with the transport support of the following additional
capabilities requirements of NGN [ITU-T requirements:
Y.2012], with support of the • support of SDN related protocols.
additional following optional
requirement:
• cache and media stream
delivery functions in transport
nodes.

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