How is the IPDR NDM-U standard different than existing wireline standards?
Ability to describe next-generation digital services. Billable attributes such as Quality of Service, Bandwidth, and Latency that never existed in the wireline world are easily supported by IPDR Documents.Ability to evolve on Internet time. One underlying premise of the IPDR approach is that the nature of the Internet is to create new, exciting services with new powerful features and capabilities 10x more rapidly than the wireline world. Thus, flexibility is a key requirement observed by the protocols.Standardization yet Protocol-independence. As vendors and standards wage a war to become the dominant interoperability platform, IPDR abstracts the content from the transport protocol in order to support any or all. Advanced capabilities such as discovery, real-time communication, and introspection can be supported as additional IPDR protocol implementations are published in new versions of the NDM-U specification.
