Back شبكات الجيل المقبل Arabic Next-generation network Azerbaijani Xarxes de propera generació Catalan Next Generation Network Czech Next Generation Network German Red de siguiente generación Spanish Next generation network French NGN HE Next Generation Networking Italian Next Generation Network Japanese
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The next-generation network (NGN) is a body of key architectural changes in telecommunication core 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.
NGN is a different concept from Future Internet, which is more focused on the evolution of Internet in terms of the variety and interactions of services offered.