BELLEVUE, WA--(Marketwire - December 19, 2007) - 3G Americas has published a white paper
entitled "QoS Interoperability and Policy Management Recommendations" that
carefully defines the challenges faced by operators today as demands
intensify for converged services and service roaming. The paper outlines
and recommends a policy-based mechanism for exchange service and network
information such as QoS for providing end-to-end and real-time services.
The policy management framework is a key underlying technology for roaming
service and QoS control.
"As wireless networks evolve to all-IP networks, it is critical that mobile
service providers continue to provide value to the subscribers while
maintaining control over resources," stated Chris Pearson, President of 3G
Americas. "3G Americas provides these policy management and QoS
recommendations for operators, while recognizing that each operator must
determine its final specific implementations based on its own business
requirements and network conditions."
Operators face two sets of service management issues: the first is how to
manage IP-based services in an all-IP environment, and the second is how to
manage end-to-end services that traverse across different network domains.
The 3G Americas white paper evaluates and recommends solutions for how to
policy-enable QoS interoperability across operator domains to offer
"home-like" services for roamers. It highlights the need for mobile
service providers to employ a policy management framework for managing QoS
and other network parameters between roaming partners.
3G Americas provides the following recommendations:
-- That service providers implement a policy management framework based
on 3GPP Release 7 Policy Charging Control;
-- That service providers establish a minimum set of QoS feature parity
in the Packet Core and Transport based on 3GPP Release 7 Policy Charging
Control in order to support QoS and Charging; and
-- That service providers establish a minimum set of QoS feature parity
in the Radio Access Network in order to support real-time / time sensitive
services, e.g. video share.
The white paper, "QoS Interoperability and Policy Management
Recommendations," was written collaboratively by members of 3G Americas and
is available for free download at:
http://www.3gamericas.org/PDFs/3GAmericas_QoSPolicy_Dec19-07.pdf
About 3G Americas: Unifying the Americas through Wireless Technology
The mission of 3G Americas is to promote and facilitate the seamless
deployment throughout the Americas of GSM and its evolution to 3G and
beyond. The organization fully supports the Third Generation technology
migration strategy to EDGE and UMTS/HSPA adopted by many operators in the
Americas that accounts for over 86% of next-generation customers
worldwide. 3G Americas is headquartered in Bellevue, WA with an office for
Latin America and the Caribbean in Dallas, TX. For more information, visit
our website at
www.3gamericas.org.
Contact Information: Contact:
Vicki Livingston
+1 262 242 3458