Broadband Convergence Networks (BCN) is focused on the convergence of not just voice, video and data, but also the convergence of heterogeneous wired and wireless networks and applications into a seamless user experience. This enables a new era of broadcasting, where IP-based telecommunication moves to support high quality, IPbased multimedia broadcasting. While a good amount of effort has been focused on the networking aspect of BCN, much less attention has been paid to its management. Specifically, no real advances on how wired and wireless networks will be operated and managed have been addressed. Instead, only small parts of the problem are being addressed (the IETF has working groups on some technologies; the ITU's FGNGNM (Focus Group on Next Generation Network Management) has not made near the progress that the FGNGN has made). Other standards bodies and fora have also made no significant progress on this issue. Motorola's Seamless Mobility Initiative is very much focused on BCN. This initiative focuses on the easy, uninterrupted access to information, entertainment, communication, monitoring and control, giving the user a sense of being connected anywhere, anytime, to anything, with any service. Indeed, the fundamental goal of seamless mobility is to provide new types of user experience that overcome the limitations of existing technologies, systems and services. Key to this initiative is the ability to make management invisible.
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