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FG NET-2030

"Network 2030: A pointer to the new horizon for the future digital society and networks in the year 2030 and thereafter." – Dr Richard Li, FG NET-2030 chairman

The ITU-T Focus Group Technologies for Network 2030 (FG NET-2030) was established by ITU-T Study Group 13 at its meeting in Geneva, 16-27 July 2018 and conc​luded its activity on July 2020.​​​

The Focus Group, intends to study the capabilities of networks for the year 2030 and beyond, when it is expected to support novel forward-looking scenarios, such as holographic type communications, extremely fast response in critical situations and high-precision communication demands of emerging market verticals. The study aims to answer specific questions on what kinds of network architecture and the enabling mechanisms are suitable for such novel scenarios.

 The study is collectively called ‘Network 2030’. It will be further realized by the exploration of new communication mechanisms from a broad perspective and is not restricted by existing notions of network paradigms or to any particular existing technologies. Network 2030 may be built upon a new or refined network architecture to carry information in a manner that may evolve from, or is quite different from today’s networks. Regardless, Network 2030 based systems shall ensure they remain fully backward compatible, supporting both existing and new applications.

 The FG NET-2030, as a platform to study and advance international networking technologies, will investigate the future network architecture, requirements, use cases, and capabilities of the networks for the year 2030 and beyond.
 
The objectives include:
 
• To study, review and survey existing technologies, platforms, and standards for identifying the gaps and challenges towards Network 2030, which are not supported by the existing and near future networks.
• To formulate all aspects of Network 2030, including vision, requirements, architecture, novel use cases, evaluation methodology, and so forth.
• To provide guidelines for standardization roadmap.
• To establish liaisons and relationships with other SDOs.
• Network 2030 focuses on the fixed data communication networks​.​

Participation in FG NET-2030 is free of charge and open to all. To receive updates and announcements related to this group, please subscribe to the FG NET-2030 mailing list (see the "FG NET-2030 Mailing lists" tab on the right of this page).

ToR: Terms of reference                      Parent group: ITU-T Study Group 13


Deliverables:

• White Paper: "Network 2030 - A Blueprint of Technology, Applications and Market Drivers Towards the Year 2030 and Beyond"​ (May 2019) 
• Deliverable:"New Services and Capabilities for Network 2030: Description, Techni​​cal Gap and Performance Target Analysis​"  (October 2019) ​
• Technical Report:  "Representative use c​ases and key network requirements for Network 2030​" (January 2020) 
• Technical Report: "Network 2030 - Gap Analysis of Network 2030 New Services, Capabilities and Use cases" (June 2020)
• Technical Report: "Network 2030- Additional representative use cases and key network requirements for Network 2030" (June 2020)
• Technical Specification: ​"Network 2030 Architecture Framework"
  (June 2020)
• Technical Specification: "Network 2030 - Terms and Definitions"
  (June 2020)
• Technical Report: "Network 2030 - Description of Demonstrations for Network 2030 on Sixth ITU Workshop on Network 2030 and Demo Day, 13 January 2020​" (June 2020)

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