Topic summary
All IP
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Next-generation network.
The next-generation network (NGN) is a body of key architectural changes in telecommunicationcore and access networks. The general idea behind the NGN is that one network transports all information and services (voice, data, and all sorts of media such as video) by encapsulating these into IP packets, similar to those used on the Internet. NGNs are commonly built around the Internet Protocol, and therefore the term all IP is also sometimes used to describe the transformation of formerly telephone-centric networks toward NGN.