Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
Architecture. Figure 1 is a high level sketch illustrating support can be done, for example, by using an IP
a possible architecture for an “all-IP based UMTS based MSC server (not shown, for signaling plane)
network” and its relationship with UMTS Release ‘99 and a media gateway device (for traffic plane).
architecture. The major features of this architecture can
be summarized as follows:
TECHNICAL CHALLENGES
The benefits of this approach are: In this paper, we have introduced the concept of all IP
No disruption to existing circuit-switched based networks, which reflects the recent discussions and
services. progress in 3G.IP and 3GPP. We have presented the
R99 circuit-switched terminals can be supported. value proposition for all IP networks and have given an
0 New services, packet based, can be tested and overview of the architecture and technical issues and
offered in parallel. challenges that need to be addressed. The paper also
New capacity gained through packet-switched discusses the considerations, alternative solutions and
domain merits for the migration to an all IP network from R’99
0 Load sharing between two parallel paths (via networks.
circuit-switched and packet-switched domains).