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Fixed/Mobile Convergence (FMC) was the key topic that brought 3GPP and the Broadband Forum together for their first joint workshop, held February 18-19 in San Francisco. The two-day workshop was attended by 120 industry experts, who reviewed over 40 contributions focused primarily on use cases and joint requirements.

The attendees, primarily 3GPP and Broadband Forum members, also included representatives from ETSI TISPAN, ATIS and other standards bodies. The diverse group came together with a shared goal; to start the process of aligning new FMC work in each organization to best address both fixed and wireless management requirements. The two days spent together allowed the group to identify the key issues at hand and the work that needs to be done. With words of appreciation and encouragement from workshop co-chairs, Stephen Hayes of 3GPP and Dave Allan of the Broadband Forum, each organization took away work items that address both near term and long term next steps for both 3GPP and the Broadband Forum.

Through liaison communications and technical contributions into each organization, joint requirements will be shared, and another workshop is envisioned for the future after a scope and gap analysis is performed by the organizations.

Workshop documents and presentations are at available…on line

Presentations & Papers from the Workshop:

• Beyond FMC Interworking UDC for FMC

• Proposed Use Case and Requirement based on Policy Control in FMC

• Proposed Architecture for Policy Control in FMC

• Seamless WLAN offload

• 3GPP EPC Overview

• Broadband Forum Status (Revised version)

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Mobility-Roaming-Nomadism (See Workshop docs for various revisions of this document – Last version)

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Authentication/Authorization/Accounting

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking Policy & QoS

• High level analysis of Interworking between fixed NW access and 3GPP domain

• ATIS' Organizational Efforts on FMC

• ATIS Exploratory Group on Convergence (EGC) Report & Recommendations

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Use Cases for Public and Enterprise Wireline Interworking

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - S9 Interface: Requirements and Protocol Selection Criteria

• 3GPP-BBF Interworking - Proposal for PCRF Based BPCF

• Media and Codec policies architecture with converged Next Generation Networks

• Focus on working procedures for the policy control aspect of FMC

• PCRF-BPCF Functional Split and Information Exchange

• View on FMC – Policy Control

• ETSI TISPANPolicy Management Overview

• 3GPP Work Item Description - Support for BBF Accesses Interworking

• WT-203 - Interworking between next Generation Fixed and 3gpp wireless access

• Fixed Mobile Interworking - QoS Control via S9

• Policy Interworking – How to setup QoS for a 3GPP UE in a BBF domain

• Fixed Mobile Interworking - Establishing the s9 Session

• Connectivity and Mobility Considerations

• Authenticaton Conundrum

• TISPAN Policy Management Overview

• 3GPP-BBF Architecture - Mobility aspects

• Change Request to 3GPP Technical Specification 22.278 - Addition of operational Requirements for Fixed Mobile Convergence

• Key Workshop findings

ENDS

About the Broadband Forum The Broadband Forum mission is to develop the full potential of broadband. With the recent union with the IP/MPLS Forum, the Broadband Forum is now the central body for next generation IP network specifications. This organization, comprising around 200 members of most of the world's leading service providers, equipment manufacturers, chip vendors and other key organizations, defines and facilitates next generation networks for local broadband access, mobile backhaul, business services, IPTV, gaming and other applications, and is poised to address further developments as they arise. The Broadband Forum's formal BroadbandSuite™ Release Program, Technical Reports and specifications are publicly available at http://www.broadband-forum.org.

For further information, visit www.broadband-forum.org or contact Laurie Gonzalez (laurie@broadband-forum.org) +1-770-761-9300.

3GPP technical experts have attended the recent IMT-Advanced workshop, in Beijing, China, hosted by the China MIIT Institute of Communication Standards Research (CATR) and China Mobile.

The workshop was chaired by the 3GPP TSG RAN chairman, Takehiro Nakamura, with the first day given over to 3GPP RAN working group presentations and the second to the twelve IMT-Advanced evaluation groups.

3GPP Presentations:

• LTE technologies (Takehiro Nakamura: TSG-RAN Chair, NTT DOCOMO)
• Physical layer aspects (Matthew Baker: RAN WG1 Chair, Alcatel-Lucent)
• Layer 2 and 3 aspects (Magnus Lindström: RAN WG2, Ericsson)
• RAN architecture aspects (Dino Flore: RAN WG3 Chair, Qualcomm)
• RF aspects (Takaharu Nakamura: RAN WG4 Chair, Fujitsu)
• 3GPP Self evaluation methodology and results (Tetsushi Abe: RAN WG1 Vice-Chair, NTT DOCOMO)

Status reports from the IMT-Advanced Independent Evaluation Groups (IEG):

• ARIB
• ATIS WTSC Evaluation Group
• CEG
• ChEG (Part I) (Part II)
• ETSI
• REG
• TCOE India
• TR 45 (Presentation not available)
• TTA PG707
• WFEG
• WINNER+ (Part I)(Part II

TeliaSonera has launched two LTE™ networks in Stockholm and Oslo, becoming the first operator to commercially deploy this new technology.

The two networks are fully 3GPP compliant, being built to 3GPP Release 8 specifications, completed by the Technical Specification Groups (TSGs) exactly one year ago.

Stephen Hayes, the 3GPP Service and System Aspects TSG Chairman commented:

“This launch is the culmination of years of hard work by 3GPP. It is gratifying to see the promise of LTE turn into reality. I look forward to seeing LTE fulfill its potential of doing for multimedia what GSM did for voice.”

At a Press conference in Stockholm on the 14th December, Åsa Torstensson, Swedish Minister for Communications plugged-in the first TeliaSonera LTE dongle and after a few moments an LTE data session was underway. The Swedish Minister added perspective on the potential of the technology, stating that;

“Everyone should be able to take advantage of the information society, everywhere and anytime.”

During the Press Conference, TeliaSonera acknowledged the ‘early adopter' status of its first LTE customers and openly said that being first to market will teach them a lot. In a question and answer session, Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services, TeliaSonera told journalists that their first customers will not be data capped and that they plan to have backward compatible 3G/LTE dongles by 2nd Quarter 2010 with LTE handsets following later, some time in 2011.

Details from TeliaSonera's launch of their LTE Networks are available at; http://www.teliasonera.com/press/pr...

3GPP Press Contact information :

Kevin Flynn Marketing and Communications Officer, 3GPP Tel: +33 4 9294 4258 Email: kevin.flynn@3gpp.org URL: http://www.3gpp.org

About 3GPP 3GPP brings together six standards organizations from Asia, North America and Europe to publish mobile standards. 3GPP has recently completed the functionality for LTE by Freezing Release 8 of the Standard, an achievement that will allow operators to realize early deployment plans. In 2009, 3GPP Release 9 will expand the functionality of Release 8 as well as laying solid foundations for LTE-Advanced, 3GPP's response to the ITU's call for 4th generation systems (IMT-Advanced). 3GPP has a website (www.3gpp.org) containing all specifications and latest drafts free-of-charge.

™ The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has registered "LTE" as a trademark for the benefit of the 3GPP Partners.