Summary

Recommendation ITU-T G.9971 specifies the functional requirements of transport functions in an IP home network associated with the wired access network based on the generic architecture described by Recommendation ITU‑T G.9970: "Generic home network transport architecture". This Recommendation first clarifies the position of the home network in end-to-end transport networks as well as the home network functional architecture, and then provides the functional requirements for the transport capabilities of some key components in the home network, such as the access gateway (AGW), IP terminal, etc. Moreover, it mentions some other functional requirements, such as QoS control, management and security so that the operators can reliably provide their services all the way to the IP terminal.