An evolved, open-standard architecture is essential to building a profitable and sustainable Full Service Broadband business. It represents a tremendous opportunity for the industry and the architecture can be built using components that are already, or will soon be, available based on open standards.

Full Service Broadband provides the consumer electronics industry with the required economies of scale. It also drives usage by offering the user transparency and convenience. It lets anyone reach anybody, or any device, at any time; improves cost-efficiency by stimulating competition and simplifying interoperability and management; and it encourages a common ecosystem that is beneficial to all parties involved.

The Full Service Broadband architecture is designed to meet these needs across residential and enterprise service offerings. Full Service Broadband is a reliable, secure and cost-optimized transport network. A variety of access technologies is also used.

IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) enables control and delivery of end-to-end services that are convenient to the user and can be reached from any device and across any access technology. User mobility and multi-access connectivity are enabled through consistent and open User-to-Network Interfaces (UNI), while open Network-to-Network Interfaces (NNI) ensure interoperability with partners such as other operators and enterprises.