Net Events Webinar with The Moriana Group

What needs to be done to accelerate the deployment of NGN’s and what are the real business benefits NGN’s bring to the Enterprise?

 `Deploying NGNs’ Introduced & Chaired by Mac Taylor, Founder & CEO, Moriana Group 

The Internet has proved itself as an unparalleled source of new and innovative services.

One of the reasons for this success is the simplicity of design. The Network is ‘stupid’; ‘intelligence’ is pushed to the edge and services execute at the end systems. Applications are developed by enterprises, computing, and software companies and developers. In this conception of NGN all we need from the public network carriers is reliable, high-bandwidth transport.

But is this really true? If so, should telecom operators capitulate and ignore NGN services and focus on becoming a ‘pipe’ business? Or does NGN offer both operators and their customers significant advantages that the Internet can’t deliver.  Is so, what needs to be done to accelerate the deployment of NGNs?  What are the real business benefits of NGNs for enterprises?

Today most of the focus on NGN has been on specific NGN technology issues – such as what type of access will be supported. How will the backbone transport network be designed. How will operations and management be handled and so on.  Although these are all critical questions, several important issues are often left out of the discussion on NGNs.

Mac Taylor, who introduces our webinar, argues that the success of next generation networks may depend more on organisational and cultural roadblocks within telecom organisations, than on technology benefits. On the other hand the MultiService Forum (MSF) (whose motto is ”we make NGNs work”) focuses on how NGN services might be realized in an NGN environment, at the same time helping to define a common NGN services vision that identifies areas where industry cooperation is needed.

With both points of view represented on our panel we can expect an incisive and up-to-the-minute debate on the true way forward.