Peter Janeck
NGN development at Magyar Telekom: The future of our fixed network
Fixed-line telecommunication is at crossroads. Mobile is dominating the voice market and is developing toward offering multimedia. Internet penetration is growing and applications on Internet are blossoming. Broadband access is spreading and the developing bandwidth capability more and more appeals for attractive content. Usage of legacy telephone service is declining. Next Generation Network (NGN) – having the Release 1 standard package published – gives new opportunities to renew fixed telecommunications offering feature-rich multimedia services and applications. Magyar Telekom is running an ambitious development to deploy broadband access and to build up an IMS based NGN network that will be also the technical basis of the ongoing integration of Magyar Telekom and T-Mobile Hungary.