Although IMS/NGN architectures are, in principle, access-agnostic, their services require the active support of multifunctional access networks.
xDSL and fiber wireline access should allow rich and flexibly allocated bandwidth capacity, various media handling, and QoS assuring mechanisms.
As a major access products vendor, ECI is pioneering the implementation of the newest solutions and technology in the access network domain.
This paper provides some background on 3GPP IMS and TISPAN NGN architecture, and describes how ECI's Hi-FOCuS MSANTM family of products provides operators with highly efficient, future-proof access solutions, supporting all of their access networking needs.