Executive Summary - MTR-002v2

The intent of this report is to define the base requirements for the MWIF architecture and outline business goals.

The MWIF Architecture Principles Technical Report was produced in order to support the following business goals:

• Significant cost reduction
  • Data communications cost curve
  • Multi-vendor procurement
  • Modular & incremental infrastructure growth
• Accelerated Time to market
  • End user services
  • Infrastructure
• Variety of services with open service creation environment
  • Faster services & applications development
  • New business development opportunities
  • Alignment of data services and the Internet
• Grow Internet services business

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By writing, publishing and freely distributing mobile/Internet technical reports, MWIF acts as a catalyst to influence technical standards, industry organizations and ultimately worldwide corporations that develop next generation mobile and wireless Internet solutions.

As an international collaborative unit, the membership team that worked on this report is comprised of carriers, developers and ISPs. The benefit of this collaboration is seen in the reference network architecture that is diagramed in this report as well as the supporting documents that follow.

Listed below are the definition of terms that are used in the report.

Definitions
This document employs the following terminology:

• Must, Shall, or Mandatory ‹ the item is an absolute requirement of the Technical Report (TR).
• Should ‹ the item is highly desirable.
• May or Optional ‹ the item is not compulsory, and may be followed or ignored according to the needs of the implementers.