IP inter-working (IPI) Overview
GSMA - ERO Update
Meeting: TRIS - TISPAN WG4 workshop on NGN
Copenhagen
Doc number IPI 002_2006 ver 1.1
Overview
Niall Halpenny (GSMA)
18th January 2006
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What is IPI?
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Access versus Service Inter-Connection
•Payment
Differentiation
•Payment
Differentiation
•Per Bit
More bits/
•Service
Quality
cheaper bits
Effect
Effect
Cheapest/Most bits Win
Price important
No incentive to re-invest
Incentive to re-invest in QoS
No incentive to provide QoS
Players can specialise
Result
Result
Only a few players in market
Many players in market
Evolution slows
Evolution in many directions
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IPI Principles
‘Enhanced Service Environment - (ESE)’
 End-to-End service delivery
 Service interoperability
 Third party management
 Customer protection
 Cascade payments
 Initiating party pays – responsibility for actions
 Supporting value-based service pricing
 Customer choice
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IPI goals
 Create environment to grow IP services
 Ensure customer centric sustainable model
 Introduce a fair distribution of value
 Foster continuous market growth
 Establish alternatives to access-only based
inter-working
 Ensure several models available in the
market
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What’s happening
SIP trials
The full picture
MMS hubbing
Long-term
Strategic Value
Creation
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PoC
Instant
Messaging
Games
Video Sharing
More person-to
-person
services….
MMS Hub Experience: Volume Ramp-Up
Average monthly traffic growth: 20%
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Data from selected a Real GRX provider routes
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Some Companies Involved
Additional IPI project supporters
SIP trial project
Total approx 50 companies actively involved in trials
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SIP trials – What are they
Global Test Network for trialling SIP/IMS services
Multi-vendor
Inter-connected using GRX providers
Kicked off October 2004
First campaign completed February 2005
First Asian campaign initiated April 2005
2 campaigns Europe & Asia
 1 Pan contintenal trial
US participants expected shortly
Subsequent campaigns looking
at more complex services
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GSMA SIP Trial Completed Campaigns
Q1 05
TC#1
Present successful inter-working
between multi-vendor IMS core
systems using…
•Standardized IMS core systems
•GRX routing domain
•Actual IMS services by Nokia
Introduce the IPX hubbing model
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Q2 05
TCEA02
Several technical extensions…
•Connection between IPX
Proxies
•IPv6 and IPv4/6 conversion
•Accounting data collection
done by IPX Proxy
•Basic performance related
measurements
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GSMA SIP Trial Completed Campaigns
Q2 05
TCAP01
Q3 05
TCAP02
Several new trial participants –
operators, carriers, and a vendor –
from Asia
Based on first two campaigns in
Europe
Several IMS services by Nokia
and Siemens
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New trial participants:
operators, carriers, and a vendor –
from Asia
Based on TCEA02
Several IMS services by Nokia
and Siemens
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The Future
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Next steps summary
 Continue discussions within the wider industry
 Technical
 Commercial
 Regulatory authorities
 Support implementation of commercial agreements
 Establish further proof of the benefits of the concept
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Questions
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Contact Details
IPI Strategy and Commercial lead: - John Boden (Vodafone)
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IPI Project director: - Niall Halpenny (GSMA)
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IPI Project leader – Markus Muenkler (Vodafone)
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SIP trials Leader – Sami Ala Luukko (TeliaSonera)
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SIP trials manager – Mark Hogan (GSMA)
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General queries – Orla Ryan (GSMA)
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