Issues
Scalability
- Must scale to support hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users in a region the size of the SF Bay Area
Functionality
- Computer-phone integration
- Real-time, multipoint/multicast, location-aware services, security
- Home networking, “active” spaces, sensors/actuators
First Principles-based Design
- Leverage evolving IP traffic models
- Provisioning the network for the extrapolated traffic and services
- ProActive Infrastructure
- Computing resources spread among switching infrastructure
- Computationally intensive services: e.g., voice-to-text
- Service and server discovery