Wireless Europe
	January 2004, issue 30
	Moby Dick architecture pushes convergence...
	The Moby Dick integrated network architecture should result in seamless access to a range of wireless and wireline data services based on lPv6 and Release 5 of UMTS.
	A consortium of private- and public-sector organizations has completed a three-year project to develop a converged mobile network architecture based on version 6 of the Internet protocol (IPv6). The Mobility and Differentiated Services in a Future IP Network consortium (also called Moby Dick) was founded in 2000 with a three-year mandate to develop an architecture that would allow seamless access to a range of IP-based wireless services.
	The intention is to deploy the proposed Moby Dick architecture concurrently with Release 5 of the UMTS standard, which supports all-IP operation. Key characteristics of the architecture include the delivery of data services to mobile users via time division duplex UMTS (TD-CDMA) air interface and wireless local-area networks. Users would also be able to access services using the wireline Ethernet.
	In the cellular network, all elements beyond the base station are replaced or redistributed by an IP-based equivalent. This includes the radio-network controller, the serving GPRS support node and the gateway GPRS support node. Mobility management functions, such as handover, paging and end-to-end quality of service, would be performed by the Moby Dick architecture along with security and billing-related functions (such as user authentication and charging for services).
	...while Daidalos aims to realize this
	The European Union has begun the Daidalos project to realize the open mobile-network architecture proposed by the Moby Dick consortium (see above). According to the project's coordinator, Riccardo Pascotto of Deutsche Telekom, Daidalos will "seamlessly integrate the heterogeneous network technologies and enable users to access a range of personalized communication services".
	The project will also seek to create an Internet protocol version 6 infrastructure that will support broadcasting services and pervasive systems, including intelligent applications that are aware of the context in which they are being used.
	Daidalos includes 46 organizations from industry and academia and is scheduled to run for two and a half years.
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