摘要
This paper analyzes functions of the home gateway, including its basic functions, service platform capability, operators' management capability and security functionality. It emphatically discusses the positioning of the home gateway, implementation of its service gateway, its network management functionality and realization of private communication and private number under the circumstance of network convergence in future. It is concluded that the development of NGN and convergence of fixed and mobile networks must be taken into the consideration of home gateway functionalities and positioning, and that with the development of NGN, home networks and home gateway products would become fully developed in future, although they are not mature now.
This paper analyzes functions of the home gateway, including its basic functions, service platform capability, operators' management capability and security functionality. It emphatically discusses the positioning of the home gateway, implementation of its service gateway, its network management functionality and realization of private communication and private number under the circumstance of network convergence in future. It is concluded that the development of NGN and convergence of fixed and mobile networks must be taken into the consideration of home gateway functionalities and positioning, and that with the development of NGN, home networks and home gateway products would become fully developed in future, although they are not mature now.
