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Next Generation Service Network is a service network is a number of services connected together to share resources and working together to fulfill a sequences of user requirement.
The NGSN initiative has been approved to set up a new study group under IEEE. The goal of the NGSN study group will be to develop an IEEE Project Authorization Request (PAR) for a project to standardize an overlay network architecture for the life cycle management of multiple, value-added collaborative, information and communication services, independent of transport network. The Study Group is sponsored jointly by the Communications Society and Corporate Advisory Group, the resultant standards project and study group is intended to be entity based (one company, one vote), and the duration of the Study Group is currently chartered from March 17, 2007 through November 17, 2007.