Work Programme

Our Work Programme serves to accomplish the overall objectives and the vision of the NGMN Alliance.

In addition to supporting 5G’s full potential through several ongoing projects, our three new key strategic themes are:

Route to disaggregation

Leading in the development of open, disaggregated, virtualised and cloud native solutions with a focus on the E2E Operating Model

Green future networks

Building sustainable & environmentally conscious solutions

6G

Emergence of 6G highlighting key trends across technology and societal requirements plus use cases to address

High level overview of our complete Work Programme:

For more details concerning our projects:

See our Project Portfolio

Objectives

In its projects, task-forces and workshops, the NGMN Alliance:

establishes clear functional and non-functional requirements for mobile networks of the next generation
evaluates and drives technology evolution towards 5G’s full implementation and the three major priorities for 2021 and beyond:
1. Route to Disaggregation with a Focus on the E2E Operating Model
2. Sustainability/ Green Future Networks
3. 6G
gives input to standards developing organisations and cooperation partners
provides a networking platform to assess and to address technology challenges
shares experience in up and running networks
identifies and removes barriers to guide the industry towards successful implementations of attractive mobile services

Working Principles

The NGMN Alliance work programme is a collaborative work programme in which all the NGMN Alliance Partners (Mobile Network Operators, Vendors/Manufacturers and Research/Academia) contribute to agreed project objectives and deliverables.

The NGMN Alliance work programme is governed by a tollgate process to initiate, approve and finalise projects and a deliverable process to produce, approve and disseminate/publish the NGMN Alliance deliverables which are required to achieve the NGMN Alliance objectives. The NGMN Alliance projects are created at the direction of the NGMN Alliance Board and supervised by the Strategy and Programme Committee. Projects are led by a representative of one of the NGMN Alliance Partners.

Participants of projects may adopt different roles such as lead or contributor. In addition, the NGMN Alliance Programme Office is supporting the projects in the areas of programme and process management, tools, communication and workplace facilities, as well as administrative and legal matters. Projects are organised as virtual distributed teams which make extensive use of digital communications and video-conferencing, but also conduct regular physical meetings and workshops.

In general, work within the work programme is contribution-driven, i.e. depends largely on the active involvement and contributions from the individual partners. Decision making and the creation, review and agreement of deliverables are based on a consensus principle. All deliverables require final approval by the Board.

News

NGMN Identifies Best Practices for Telco Supply Chain Sustainability17. January 2023 - 9:53
Frankfurt, Germany, January 17, 2023. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) today published ‘Green Future Networks: Telco Supply Chain Sustainability’ addressing the key issue of how operators can work with their supply chains to reduce carbon emissions. Reducing carbon emissions from the supply chain is of critical importance to operators’ roadmaps to net zero carbon.

“Cutting carbon emissions to tackle climate change is an issue that challenges all industries. The mobile industry is meeting this challenge head-on”, said Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom and NGMN Board Chairman. “Our work at NGMN is an important step in enabling operators and their suppliers to identify practical ways in which they can work together to reduce carbon emissions. Deutsche Telekom targets net-zero emissions at the latest by 2040. With more than 95% emissions generated from our value chain, partnering with our suppliers is critical to meeting our net zero goals. To support the industry, we shared our best practice examples in this publication”, he added.
NGMN continues its successful path with Chairman Arash Ashouriha being re-elected for a second term13. December 2022 - 11:23
Frankfurt, Germany, December 13, 2022. The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) announces its Board Chairman and Board Members for the term 2022 – 2024, starting November 23, 2022. All Board Members were newly confirmed and Arash Ashouriha, SVP Group Technology Innovation of Deutsche Telekom, was unanimously elected to extend his Chairmanship for another term of two years. Under his direction, between 2020 and 2022, NGMN successfully performed a significant re-positioning and transformation executing its new strategy to focus on “Mastering the Route to Disaggregation with a spotlight on the E2E Operating Model”, “Green Future Networks” and “6G”, whilst continuing to support 5G’s full potential.
NGMN Paves the Way for Disaggregated Networks’ Operating Models18. October 2022 - 8:51
Frankfurt, Germany, October 18, 2022. Today, the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance has launched its second publication on “ODiN – Operating Disaggregated Networks v2.0”, which provides a detailed breakdown on how disaggregation impacts an operator’s organisation and processes. The publication covers RAN, core and transport disaggregation and outlines how planning, deployment, service provision, optimisation and maintenance processes will be impacted. In addition, the publication highlights the impact on processes of cloudification and the need to move towards the use of greater network automation whilst embracing DevSecOps.

Work Programme

Route to disaggregation

Green future networks

6G

Objectives

Working Principles

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