TY - JOUR AU - Hong, James AB - Ann. Telecommun. (2008) 63:135–136 DOI 10.1007/s12243-008-0024-7 FOREWORD José Neuman de Souza & Alan Marshall & James Won-Ki Hong Institut TELECOM and Springer-Verlag France 2008 According to the International Telecommunication Union In the same way that new NGN architectures are Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), a evolving, the approaches to managing these networks and next-generation network (NGN) can be defined as “a the services they provide must also evolve. Therefore, packet-based network able to provide Telecommunication looking 5, 10, or more years ahead, management systems Services to users and able to make use of multiple must evolve to meet the needs of the next generation of broadband, QoS-enabled transport technologies and in communication networks and services. This means that which service-related functions are independent of the traditional approaches to network and service management underlying transport-related technologies.” The aim is to may be insufficient to meet the new requirements of these enable users with unfettered network access along with networks and services, and the design of network manage- access to competing service providers and services of their ment architectures must be reconsidered in light of new choice. NGNs are also expected to support generalized developments in this area. mobility, which will allow TI - Next-generation network and service management JF - Annals of Telecommunications DO - 10.1007/s12243-008-0024-7 DA - 2008-04-05 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/next-generation-network-and-service-management-fJf5Q60U5b SP - 135 EP - 136 VL - 63 IS - 4 DP - DeepDyve ER -