Next Generation Networks and IT Strategy

June 23, 2007 | Category: Consulting , Articles

Next Generation Network NGN (Next Generation Networks) run across the country. NGN networks provide transmission of sound, video and data IP-based protocol.

NGN - this is not a technical standard, and a new principle of distributed network architecture where each layer performs its function. Two groups of operators, NGN: operators' bit-pipe "to ensure that the transit traffic, and service providers. The operators of access networks form packages for subscribers. Creating a service requires a significant investment, so operators are interested in the integration of external suppliers of services.

Two categories of users - the corporate segment and individual users define a set of services. Companies operating in the B2B segment can extend the range of services for its partners to create services for discovering products, order tracking, e-learning, recruitment.

Companies operating in the B2C segment has a new channel for the provision and sale of services. The potential number of service providers and operators, service networks is sufficiently large, which should lead to the creation of new market infrastructure that would ensure integration offers small service providers.

NGN creates new opportunities for consumers of IT services, namely consumers' willingness to take advantage of these opportunities will determine the progress of the IT industry as a whole. The concept of a consumer Internet service companies, real service presented in the book by David Moshelly " Business prospects for information technology ".

For many companies, the integration of ERP-systems, CRM-applications and other domestic private enterprise applications and NGN-services should be the main section of the IT strategy.

IT straegiya company must determine the change in the internal control system (the interaction between employees, departments, business units), changes in interaction with partners (suppliers and customers) and the prospect of providing new services.

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