The Future Network: Its prospects and challenges

Information and Communication technologies enable to create new services or businesses for beneficial to our life over network. This introduces the traffic pattern changes so the requirements for networking is also changed. To meet new requirements of these changes, there are the activities to propose new network architecture and networking management methods as the Future Network. In this talk, the activities of exploiting the Future Network are reviewed in the several different categories such as system design, infrastructure implementation, management and operation of ICT system and applications. The possible use cases of the Future Network are also presented to understand what benefit the Future Network brings. Then, we clarify that programmability, virtualization and managed flexibility are important aspects of realizing the Future Network.