What is ITU-T SG13? What areas does it work in? Multi-protocol and IP-based networks and their internetworking Lead Study Group for IP related matters, B-ISDN, Global Information Infrastructure and satellite matters What are its main topics? services on IP/MPLS-based networks, architecture, interworking and adaptation, OAM and network management, performances and resource management, end-to-end considerations (such as QoS) What new study areas is it looking at? Next Generation Networks (NGN) : a key area of interest for the whole ITU in next period Requirements and architectures are the main current work areas Continuation/extension of current studies Ex. Ethernet OAM, Generic VPN architectures, services over MPLS (Voice, Mobile IP) What are the timescales? NGN project milestones are under work New study period (4Q04-08) will imply new structure of ITU-T Study Groups SG13 has just formulated his future study plan (new Questions) |