SummaryRecommendation ITU-T Y.2240 provides requirements and capabilities for a service integration and delivery environment in NGN (NGN-SIDE) in order to support the following main functionalities in the NGN-SIDE ecosystem: – integration of resources from different domains (e.g., telecommunication domain (fixed and mobile networks), broadcasting domain, internet domain or content provider domain) over NGN; – adaptation and abstraction of resources from different domains; – resource brokering for mediation among applications and resources; – support of application development environment for application developers; – support of different service interfaces across ANI, UNI, SNI and NNI for exposure of NGN-SIDE capabilities and access to resources in different domains; – provision of mechanisms for the support of diverse applications including cloud services, machine to machine, and ubiquitous sensor network applications; – provision of mechanisms for the support of applications making usage of context based information; – provision of mechanisms for content management. |