TI+D defines how to manage Autonomic Future Internet in the standardisation European organism ETSI

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Telefónica I+D participates in the AFI (Autonomic Future Internet) ISG (Industrial Specification Group), which the standardisation European organism ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has set up.

AFI ISG is a prestandardisation group for developing more intelligent network infrastructures with self-management abilities for the future Internet. Self-managed networks demand a paradigm change in operations towards more decentralised models, thanks to the inclusion of intelligence in the network elements in themselves. In this way, operation and exploitation processes are simplified and their efficiency increases.

The AFI ISG activities have two basic goals: Define and develop a reference model, which defines the autonomous elements and the self-management properties of future Internet; and to define the future evolution roadmap, from the current network models and protocols, like IPv6.

The group is being promoted by the CT FP7 EFIPSANS project, which is co-financed by the European Commission and in which Telefónica I+D participates outstandingly, with the collaboration of Telefónica Móviles España. In this project, loops of automatic and adaptive control are being defined for some of the most important network functions: monitoring, QoS, routing, etc.

Currently, there are no standards for these infrastructures, which makes more difficult the availability of interoperable commercial solutions. Telefónica's participation in this group has the goal of defining how these infrastructures should be exploited and managed in order to maximise their contribution to the business' development. In this phase, Telefónica is responsible for defining the operation requirements for a self-managed network; taking as starting point the NGN (Next Generation Networks).