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Fixed-Mobile
Convergence
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Fixed-Mobile Convergence
Contents
03
Abstract
04
Executive summary
05
06
07
Device convergence
08
Service convergence
09
Network convergence
11
13
14
Conclusions
Abstract
Fixed-Mobile Convergence is one of the most eagerly anticipated
changes in communication and services provision for end-users, and
poses unique challenges for operators and service providers.
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Executive summary
One of the most visible outcomes of Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC)
is its convenience and simplicity for consumers and business users,
giving them highly featured, lower cost communications.
End-user appetite for reduced costs and high quality, reliable and enabling services makes
customer retention one of the hardest fought battlegrounds.
are taking advantage of end-toend solutions that ensure costefficient operation. Converged
core networks, operations support
systems, business support systems
and service machinery to enable
savings in service development,
deployment and network operations
and maintenance. With FMC,
operators can utilize the converged
core network, share transport across
IP networks, and employ the same
solutions for all access networks
using common service creation
based on IMS for both fixed and
mobile environments.
Delivering what the market wants
has to be fulfilled if network
operators are going to enjoy longterm profitability and launch new
services to meet end-user demands,
attract new customers and retain the
existing customer base.
The basis of the FMC opportunity for
operators is real time applications
such as Voice over IP (VoIP) using
IMS, or Video services. The variety
of services coming from other
service providers and a myriad of
user-created content and services,
now available on the web provides
the potential for increased up-sell.
The gains for both the business and
consumer sectors, is clearly too
large to ignore.
Operators must now evaluate
the options, define their business
objectives and create carefully
constructed strategies for FixedMobile Convergence.
Convergence,
its happening now
More than ever, the way we communicate is blurring the
boundaries between the business and personal sides of our
lives making possible the emergence of new lifestyles.
Convergence trends
As competition grows and markets mature, traditional
telephony revenues and margins inevitably decline.
Broadband access is enabling not only low-cost IP
telephony, but a wide range of new applications such as
video calling, video on demand (VoD) and IPTV.
The traditional Telco model is no longer viable long term
and, at best, is under massive external pressures from
agile ISPs, cable operators offering voice over cable and
entrepreneurs who can see easy profits to be made.
Bandwidth has become a commodity and this has led to
the dynamic advent of xVNOs, virtual network operators
that operate in the fixed (FVNO), mobile (MVNO)
domains or in both as hybrid operators.
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Convergence trends
Apart from regulatory constraints, there is nothing to stop a
mobile operator, for example, from becoming an FVNO that
offers DSL services or even a fixed voice service provider
without owning a broadband access network.
Equally, FNOs or cable operators can expand their service
bundles via IMS or take an MVNO stance to provide VCC or
joint services for mobile devices, for example.
The Internet is loaded with services offered by service
providers competing with operators and may provide good
partnering opportunities.
There is now a myriad of user created content and services
in the Internet that can also be enabled, either to create
traffic revenue for operators or ideas that operators are
already adopting and offering themselves.
Device convergence
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Service convergence
The mobility model has become
me-centric, with my phone book,
my contact information, my agenda,
my messages, my availability and
preferred communication method, my
Internet, my pictures and video clips
(received and shared), my personal
and business email, my wall-paper,
my music and so on.
Multimedia services, such as
Presence, Push-to-talk, messaging,
interactive applications, data or video
sharing plus streaming, browsing and
downloading, are being delivered over
fixed and mobile packet networks.
To launch new services and
applications quickly, operators can
Ideas
Validation
Commercialization
End-User
Evaluation
Operator
Bus.Case
Ideas
Project
Developer Program
Launch
Grow
Services
according
to your own
differentiation
strategy
The right
business
and
technical
framework
And ensure
rapid service
discovery
and take-up
Capture the
mass market
quickly to
establish the
offering and
build revenue
Lower
Create
Period
of profits
Shorten
Cultivate
Ramp down
Maximize service
profitability and create
long-term business
value
Expand
Innovate
Period
of profits
Time/customer lifecycles
Network convergence
Network convergence simplifies the end-user experience and dissolves
the barriers and complexities that separate todays network islands.
The same services are available across all networks and, in an ideal world, appear and
perform in exactly the same way, making usage easy, transparent and intuitive.
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Smooth transitions to
converged networks
Convergence trends
Mobile phone penetration is expected
to reach 4 billion users by the end of
2010. Combine this with the growth of
VoIP over fixed broadband and there
is clear demand for a converged and
unified service experience.
The market for business services and
applications generates high-margin
traffic, has far less churn, and it is set
to grow massively.
Many businesses have already
converged local area networks and
IP PBXs to gain cost and productivity
benefits from IP telephony. They are
now forcing network operators to
implement more cost-effective, hosted
voice services, such as IP Centrex.
Interactively, mobile and IPTV
services are becoming a reality with
over 100 operators having launched
mobile TV services offering different
kinds of live TV channel packages
and on-demand video. A further
100 fixed telecom operators globally
provide IPTV services.
Presence
Messaging
Mobile
Centrex
Push
To Talk
Interactive
gaming
Chat
IMS
NGIN
OSS
BSS
Video
sharing
Content
sharing
Voice
IP
Centrex
Rel-4
Provisioning
Rich
messaging
SDP
Service control
NGN
Business
partners
Cellular
Internet
IP
Broadband
Corporate
Cable
Fixed and
mobile access
PSTN
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Charging
Reporting
Configuring
Monitoring
Optimising
All-in-one
Service
Management
Planning
Security &
System Mgmt.
Subscription
Management
Adaption
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Conclusions
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