Next Generation Network Infrastructures

The FOKUS competence center Next Generation Network Infrastructures (NGNI) provides the expertise and technologies for rapidly prototyping smart and seamless multimedia applications enabled by Open Service Delivery Platforms (SDPs) on top of heterogeneous fixed and mobile Next Generation Networks (NGNs). Taking advantage of our experiences gained in the fields of fixed mobile convergence and telecoms and internet convergence, as well as from active research in the fields of the Future Internet (FI), namely the Internet of Services (IoS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), the competence center NGNI is nowadays focussing on the progressing convergence of human to human and machine to machine communications within emerging Smart City infrastructures. In this regard, the globally recognised NGNI testbed toolkits, such as OpenIMS Core, Open EPC, Open MTC, as well as the FOKUS Broker, are building the foundation for prototyping various Smart City applications, such as Smart Power Grids, eMobility, eHealth, and eGovernment.

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NGNI completes successfully Real-Time Communication project with NTT, Japan

A project team of FOKUS NGNI has presented project results of the Real-Time Communication with Media Convergence project with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) at the NTT R&D Laboratories in Yokosuka, Japan, May, 8-10 2012.

New myMONSTER TCS version is ready for use

Building upon the great success of OpenIMC and OpenEPC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, supported by Technische Universität Berlin, released a new Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication platform: OpenMTC. This platform is inspired by the ETSI TC M2M specifications, namely TS 192.921 and TS 102.690.

OpenMTC Release 1 is available

Building upon the great success of OpenIMS and OpenEPC, Fraunhofer FOKUS, supported by Technische Universität Berlin, released a new Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication platform: OpenMTC. This platform is inspired by the ETSI TC M2M specifications, namely TS 192.921 and TS 102.690.

Collaboration with Qualcomm Research Nuremberg

Qualcomm Research Nuremberg and Fraunhofer FOKUS are currently working together in the area of efficient communication over various access network technologies and the afferent mobile device and core network functionality.

WebRTC for Telecoms

WebRTC is the upcoming HTML5 standard enabling real-time communications in web browsers. We have set up an environment for establishing multimedia session between WebRTC users based on the latest drafts in standardization. This emerging technology is integrated into the FOKUS Broker enabling interoperability between Browser applications and telecommunication capabilities of NGNs.

Towards OpenEPC Rel. 4

Currently the OpenEPC Rel. 3 is delivered to new customers including up to date tested features towards OpenEPC Rel. 4. Using cost-efficient off-the-shelf 2G (EDGE) and 3G (HSPA) hardware, OpenEPC is currently including new access network connectivity features, enabling our partners to experience complete operator network testbeds and to obtain realistic evaluations of novel services in areas such as cloud computing and the M2M communication.

OpenMTC Demo @ KuVS

On April 04, 2012 the 6th Workshop Next Generation Service Delivery Platform (NG SDP) was organized in Berlin, Germany. Around 40 workshop participants discussed the topic of "M2M impacts on SDP Evolution". A live demonstration of the OpenMTC platform was shown during the lunch break. The demo features the ETSI TC M2M specified generic communication (GC), application enablement (AE), and reachability addressing and repository (RAR) service capabilities on both the network and the gateway service capability layer (N/GSCL). More insights into those features are included in the presentation given during the workshop session.