Towards more intelligent and efficient networks

Networks should be designed to follow the broadband speed race increasing bandwidth year over year. Fixed broadband speed should be considerable higher (e.g. ×10?) than mobile one. The collaboration between fixed and mobile accesses should be increased. Mobile access can provide broadband fixed service for certain uses and environments. Femtocells will increase speed & coverage of mobile networks. They may reduce costs by offloading traffic in the home. With femtocells the reference speed of mobile can tend to the fixed one. The transport and the distribution of contents, specially video, is more and more important. The transport architecture should be reviewed in order to fulfil the challenges the networks are facing. Network infrastructure must be convergent. Those operators with fixed and mobile operations must maximize the reuse of assets between fixed and mobile. The infrastructure must be ready for the integration of more intelligence and openness in the network to put in value the networks providing more services to the end users. Different levers will be included (customers profiling, storage, IP traffic knowledge, location, presence, …). Convergence should be pursued not only as fixed and mobile but also network and IT. In order to improve time to market for new services, network and IT must be much more coupled and a multiservice solution (SDP/IMS) implemented in advance. The home is the place where majority of Telecom services are used so the role of Telefónica in the digital home is very important. Infrastructure must allow Telefónica to play a key role at home.