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Programme

Day One | Day Two

Day One: 29th November 2005

08:30 Registration and coffee

09:00 Opening remarks from the Chair:

Karim Taga, Managing Director, Austrian Head of Telecommunications Practice, ARTHUR D. LITTLE

BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK CASE - STUDIES

09:10 The impact of broadband access evolution on International Carrier

  • Technological and business trends in the wireless and wireline access
  • Opportunities for optimising carrier interconnection and entering new market segments by deploying new access technologies
  • Challenges of building a multiservice carrier backbone, which provides broadband users with global service coverage

Istvan Cselenyi, Director of Technology Development, TELIASONERA INTERNATIONAL CARRIER

09:45 Broadband access - searching for the right technology mix

  • Assume that Broadband Services become part of the Universal Service Obligation.
  • Where should we extend current xDSL service?
  • What wireless technologies may serve as an alternative, especially in remote areas?
  • Should we profit from current EDGE / UMTS FDD coverage of Swisscom Mobile?
  • Should we deploy WiMAX or UMTS TDD in the 3.5 GHz band?
  • In what cases could low-cost WLAN products be beneficial?

Jürg Ruprecht, Head of Wireless Technologies, SWISSCOM FIXNET AG

10:20 Morning Tea & Coffee

10:45 Fulfilling the technological opportunity of consumer broadband access: an operator’s perspective

  • Acquiring and retaining new customers via multiple access platforms
  • Forecasting and anticipating customer demand for broadband access
  • Understanding customers use of specialised broadband content
  • Deploying interactive services across multiple platforms that utilise bandwidth potential of broadband
  • Managing customer behaviour over several media networks

Mark Overton, Managing Director of Strategy, Products & Services, WANADOO UK

BUSINESS MODELS AND REALITIES

11:20 Waiting for mobile broadband and what it could eventually be used for

  • The mobile broadband vision
  • Different roll-out scenarios and their financial impact
  • The search for customers' reason why
  • A concrete example from Austria: LoungeFM powered by ONE - mobile digital radio over UMTS

Florian Pollack, Head of Strategy and Communications, ONE GMBH

11:55 Will broadband wireline access technologies meet business realities?

  • Consumer, market and technology trends in wireline access
  • Triple play: technical barriers and solutions
  • Voice services: there to stay for a long time
  • Business services: the forgotten cash cow
  • Which migration scenarios will secure existing service revenues and generate new ones

Dr. Thomas Martinson, Director Product Management & Support, KEYMILE AG

12:30 Lunch for delegates and speakers

13:40 The need for mobile broadband: a mobile operator-centric view

  • Business drivers for mobile broadband
  • Changing nature of competition
  • Classes of service needed to support
  • Standardisation issues
  • Radio Access and Core Network requirements

Dr Hossein Moiin, Vice President, Technical Strategy, T-MOBILE INTERNATIONAL

TECHNICAL STRATEGIES

14:15 Building intelligent networks for the delivery of full-service broadband

  • Optimising broadband access network for delivery of revenue generating services
  • Building common solutions to address business, residential and wholesale services
  • Creating end-to-end services and policy management
  • Integrating 3rd party applications and platforms
  • Reviewing real life examples: revenue generation, Opex savings and Capex savings

Ran Avital, Associate Vice President, ECI TELECOM

14:50 Afternoon Tea and Coffee

15:15 HSDPA: is this the answer to wireless and wireline DSL?

  • Mobile operators against fixed operators in the broadband market race
  • Broadband wireless technologies in the access network:
  • WiMAX IEEE.802.16e
  • UMTS TDD
  • UMTS HSDPA
  • other technologies
  • Roadmap and current implementations
  • Spectrum management and roll out impacts for a mobile operator
  • Technologies comparison and the role of HSDPA

Ovidio Michelangeli, Head of Wireline and Wireless Technologies Development, Network Division, WIND TELECOMUNICAZIONI SPA

15:50 KPN case study: from copper to fibre in new build areas

  • How to introduce fibre in a copper based local loop
  • Which (Ethernet) technology to choose
  • Addressing the challenges: regulation aspects, wholesale offering, organisational impact
  • How to serve multiple service providers

Bob Hoefnagel , Market Manager Infrastructure Services, KPN

THE CONNECTED HOME

16:25 What are the market and technology drivers for the connected home?

  • The benefits of NTL's network assets and overview of recent technology trials.
  • Consumer behaviour driving thinking for next generation access technology.
  • Home networking today and the home of the future tomorrow?
  • Market and consumer drivers to deliver sustainable competitive advantage in a converged world.

Dowshan Humzah , Director, Strategy and Planning - Internet , NTL

17:00 Closing Remarks from the Chair and end of Day One

17:10 Drinks Reception

Delegates are invited to join the speakers, sponsors & exhibitors at an informal drinks reception.

Day Two: 30th November 2005

08:30 Registration and coffee

09:00 Opening remarks from the Chair:

BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORK CASE-STUDIES

09:10 Following the service and technology evolutions: the network risks and hazards for France Telecom

  • Analysing the future trends and developments of broadband technologies
  • A France Telecom case study: the future network investments

Gilles Coullon, Chief Technical Officer for Broadband Access Network, FRANCE TELECOM

09:45 Building and operating a cost-effective, competitive and future-proof access network for converged IP services

  • The status and expected development in the competitive Nordic broadband access and service market
  • Experiences from deploying a combination of DSL, cable, fibre and wireless solutions in the Nordic market
  • Field trial and commercial experiences of offering new services such as VoIP, wireless broadband access and triple-play
  • Key issues of migrating towards and all-IP network and handling introduction of new access technologies such as FTTN/P, WiMAX and VDSL2

Leif Aarthun Ims, Director of Network Strategy, TELENOR

10:20 Morning Tea & Coffee

10:45 IPTV – the end of cable television?

  • The challenges and opportunities of a new distribution network
  • Technical requirements
  • Content strategies
  • A case study of the German market

Uwe Schnepf, Director New Media, TISCALI GERMANY

BUSINESS MODELS AND REALITIES

11:20 How different access technologies influence ST's business models in the consumer market

  • Analysing the voice & consumer online market in Slovakia
  • Assessing competing access technologies and their propositions
  • The strategic challenge for an integrated player
  • ST's approach: business model, chosen technologies

Christoph Schmidt, Director of Strategy, SLOVAK TELECOM

11:55 Ethernet-over-copper, an irresistible business opportunity

  • A quick overview of the latest in Ethernet over copper technology and product developments
  • Proven applications for these new and exciting standards-based solutions
  • Compelling economics and business case
  • Reviewing the customer drivers towards this type of service
  • What to look for when evaluating products - exceeding the challenges

Kevin Sheehan, President and CEO, HATTERAS NETWORKS

12:30 Lunch for delegates and speakers

13:40 Multi-platform broadband access: a new strategic imperative for integrated telcos in the EEC

  • Changes in the voice market and competitive environment create the need for dramatically increased broadband penetration
  • New wireless broadband access competition will change the structure of the broadband access market
  • Fixed - line broadband access and wireless broadband access can either compete or cooperate
  • Cooperative offers will be more beneficial for providers than competitive offers
  • Integrated telcos that fail to move to a multi-platform approach will fail to leverage their competitive advantages and will lose market position

Robert Grossman , Group Director of Strategic Planning , MATAV TELEKOM

TECHNICAL STRATEGIES

14:15 A radical architecture for future broadband telecommunications networks

  • Network traffic trends and growth
  • Model of traffic and impact on the economics of a broadband network
  • Architecture for an all-fibre access and core network
  • Experimental prototypes, and results

Steve Hornung, Manager, Access Programme, BT One IT, BT EXACT

14:50 Afternoon Tea and Coffee

15:15 Examining the current state-of-play of XDSL deployment for commercial and residential custom

  • Understanding the xDSL paradigm and what it means for broadband access
  • Assessing the challenges that have been introduced by the increase in speed for customers
  • Understanding how to use the new standards to deliver advanced VAS with guaranteed QoS
  • Next generation xDSL: what will the future hold?
  • Discussing the timing of possible roll-out and implementation scenarios

Nils Kristian Elnegaard, Senior Research Scientist, TELENOR

15:50 Successfully running a converged network: managing all the appropriate options for UMTS access technology

  • Discerning the transportation techniques in a converged network: what can and what can’t be converged?
  • UMTS architecture roadmap and transport requirements in the access
  • Towards the convergence: comparing transports alternatives and migration strategies
  • ATM: the technology that will never die?
  • The role of MPLS

Roberto Micali , Mobile Network Engineer , TELECOM ITALIA

THE CONNECTED HOME

16:25 Meeting the content distribution challenges in the home: a service provider's viewpoint

  • The key services
  • The commercial challenges
  • The support challenges

David Sales, Head of Home Communications, BT ENTERTAINMENT

17:00 Closing remarks from the Chair & Champagne prize draw

17:10 End of conference