| With the rapid development of broadband-access business, the strategy of the combination of three networks, the IP voice services and the rapid developing streaming media services, there are more and more demands to the IP metropolitan area network, which stimulates the develpoment of the IP metropolitan area network. The demand of scalability of IP network, QoS, security, operational manageability and other aspects of growing demand are increasing. Metropolitan area network carrying and access businesses have undergone many changes. Some other new business forms appear, such as voice, IPTV and customers business access. According to the broadband business development, the current network situation and the necessity of better service quality, it’s quite urgent to optimize the transformation of IP metropolitan area network in order to form a network which has diversified businesses, different network levels and network access differentiation.Inner Mongolia Unicom users are increasing rapidly in the scale, followed by the business development of all types of information. A huge user demand has brought new challenges to Inner Mongolia Unicom IP network. In order to meet the need of communication services and technology development, it is necessary to optimize the existing Inner Mongolia Unicom IP metropolitan area network, adjusted to make it more reasonable to optimize traffic forwarding, to provide better services for access to the users, along with service access capability of the MPLS/VPNVPLS, broadband streaming media, IPTV and3G. |