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Day one - Tuesday 23rd September
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| THE NEW COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE |
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09.00 | Keynote: Understanding the Factors Driving Growth n Tomorrow’s Wholesale Market
- The current status of the wholesale market and key opportunities in 2009
- Discussing the risk of new entrants and players from other industries on the ‘traditional’ wholesale market competitive
- Analyzing the continued role of broadband in wholesale growth
- Spectrum auctions impact on wholesale markets and global coverage
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09.30 | Keynote: Keeping Pace With Next Generation Network (NGN) Demands
- Understanding the demands of NGN customers
- Building effective networks to address these developing needs
- Exploring the impact of NGN services on value chain hierarchy
- Predicting the evolution of NGN services and ‘staying ahead of the curve’
- Outlining new technology ROI performance
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10.00 | Keynote: A Critical Moment - Transitioning to An All IP World
- Charting the industry transformation - assessing the evolution towards an all IP world
- Building a full IP network - the highway to new solutions and new territories
- Selecting the correct type of solution for each user
- Fully implementing new services and business models by measuring the challenges that lay ahead
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10.30 | Morning Coffee
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| DELIVERING CONVERGED SERVICES |
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11.10 | Keynote: The Future of the International Voice Business
- The market conditions that are driving changes in international voice
- Critical success factors for international voice carriers
- Consolidation and the rise of international voice outsourcing
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11.40 | Keynote Panel: Reevaluating Customer Segmentation for the Wholesale Market
- Defining and catering to different customer base requirements
- Mobile operators
- ISPs
- ASPs
- Fixed service providers
- Value-added service providers
- IPVPN
- Applying the lessons learned from effective retail customer segmentation to the wholesale market
- Keeping in touch with your customer’s needs and maintaining QoS
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12.30 | Economies of Scale and the Challenges of Wholesale Growth
- Choosing Business Models that Cater for Expanded Wholesale
- Understanding the possibilities and effects of consolidation in wholesale markets
- Anticipating the future of the wholesale market
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13.00 | Networking Lunch
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14.30 | Panel: Carrier Strategies for Migrating to NGN Infrastructure
- Defining the limitations of soft-switch and circuit-switched technology
- Leveraging legacy networks for profitable NGN
- Examining the fixed and mobile NGN equipment market for service providers
- Addressing concerns of interoperability
- Comparing IMS, non-IMS, and SIP application infrastructure delivering
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| | Maximo Lema, International Business Director, Telecom Argentina
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15.20 | Speed networking
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16.00 | Afternoon Tea
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16.20 | Panel: Maximising the potential of core service opportunities in NGN
- What are the strategies for safeguarding operational excellence?
- Rationalizing the value of delivering new services in a controlled, secure and chargeable way
- Effectively responding to technological innovation: maintaining QoS in an increasingly IP world
- Forming the strategies to protect key revenues during migration from legacy to NGN
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| OUTSOURCING NETWORK AND SERVICE FUNCTIONS |
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17.10 | Panel: Improving International Reach through Formulating an Outsourcing Strategy
- Meeting the investment challenges of rolling out NGN services on an international footprint
- The potential of ENUM to facilitate network convergence
- Mitigating against poor QoS and insecurity from SPIT (Spam over Internet Telephony)
- Reaching Beyond the Network: Supporting international client requirements through VNO
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18.00 | Return of the king party - Elvis returns!
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Day two - Wednesday 24th September
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| SUPPORTING BUSINESS MODELS BEYOND NGN |
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08.50 | Chairmans opening remarks
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09.00 | Keynote: The Revenue Opportunities Offered by Cutting Edge Technology
- Creating the architecture that will allow customers to enter new ecosystems
- Applying experience as a retail and traditional wholesale carrier to IPTV and FMC solutions
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09.30 | Keynote: Utilising the latest solutions to support a global customer base
- Deploying compelling ICT services on a global scale – lessons learnt from an all IP network
- Servicing the web 2.0 and media customer through the provision of capacity and service delivery
- Global reach with local depth: supporting ICT within SME enterprises
- Enabling faster data transmissions over the next five years.
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| | Mr Osamu Inoue, Executive Vice President, NTT Commuincation Corporation
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10.00 | Keynote: Enhancing global networking through global partnerships
- Effective regional & international strategies
- Developing effective partnership models that are long-lasting
- The evolution of emerging markets in Asia and beyond
- Going forward: building partnerships on a global platform
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10.30 | Morning Coffee
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| NEW HORIZONS: NEW OPTICAL FIBRE OPPORTUNIES |
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11.10 | Panel: The IPX technology roadmap – designing the future interconnection model
- Ensuring high level of security from localised and internet traffic
- Creating the roadmap towards IPX: enabling global use of IPI and beyond
- Developing inter-working inline with convergence demands
- Delivering secure and reliable QoS
- Mobile operators
- ISPs
- ASPs
- Fixed service providers
- Creating coverage across new technologies: LTE, HSPA and WiMAX
- Supporting packet voice and video services using our IPX
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| | Mr Claudia Buhne, Executive Vice President, Product Management, Deutsche Telekom Ms. Virginia Cortés, Agreements Strategy and Development, Telefónica International Wholesale Services Claus Nielsen, Director, Voice Evolution Strategy, Tata Communications
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12.00 | Panel: The Evolving Regulatory Environment for Optical Fibre Networks
- What are femtocells and how will they impact on the wholesale market?
- Using a DSL or cable-modem broadband Internet service as a backhaul to the cellular operators’ core networks
- Operational expenditure savings on macrocellular backhaul for the mobile operator – how can the market react?
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12.30 | Meeting Increased Capacity Demands for Europe
- Europe - Asia traffic: trends, volumes, and forecasts
- Comparing the potential of submarine to terrestrial route substitution
- Creating a protocol insensitive network to transport voice, data, video, and IP applications
- Update: Rostelecom's Transit Europe Asia (TEA) cable
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13.00 | Networking Lunch
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| THE IMPLICATIONS OF FIBRE FOR WHOLESALE BUSINESS MODELS |
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14.40 | Panel - The Evolving Regulatory Environment for Optical Fibre Networks
- Outlining the global FTTx regulatory market
- Exploring the potential of FTTx deregulation in Europe
- Establishing a fair regulatory framework which allows carriers to make a return on their investment
- Governmental encouragement of universal access to fibre
- Ensuring a competitive environment for optical fibre in Europe - Addressing concerns of a negative impact on cable and TV operators
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| | Mr. Daniel Hegland, Senior Adviser, Service Market Department, Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (NPT)
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15.30 | Carrier eXchange
Over 200+ executives from global carriers will meet to showcase their latest offerings to the market, do business and create significant revenues.
The carrier exchange provides bilateral trading tables and leads into the cocktail evening
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17.30 | From Russia with love party
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Day three - Thursday 25 September - Stream A Mobile roaming and interconnection strategies
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09.20 | Chairman's opening remarks
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09.30 | Keynote: Establishing a new settlement through IPX
- The role of IPX and the commercial opportunities it presents
- The formation of the IPI Alliance
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| | Mr. John Boden, Head of Group Service Interoperability, IP Alliance & Vodafone
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10.00 | Keynote: Mobile Termination Rates: An Operator's Perspective
- Examining the implications of growth and technology on the cost drivers of mobile networks
- Understanding the relationships between mobile termination rates and operator's retail prices
- An operator's perspective on implementing a harmonised approach to regulated termination rates within the EU
- Setting termination rates for fixed, mobile, and converged services
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10.30 | Keynote: Profitable mobile interconnection business models
- Strategies for monetising mobile interconnect
- Maintaining QoS
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11.00 | Morning coffee
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11.50 | Network expectations for next-generation players
- Identifying usage trends driving the high-speed demands
- High-speed data solutions
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12.20 | Optimising roaming revenues whilst providing excellent customer service
- Challenges that prevent wide scale data roaming
- Opportunities and risks presented by EU data roaming rules
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12.50 | The roaming hub revolution: Guaranteeing open connectivity
- A new age of roaming connectivity for operators
- Overcoming the pitfalls of standard bilateral agreements
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| | Mr. Patrick George, VP Product Management & Marketing, Belgacom International Carrier Services
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13.20 | Networking lunch
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14.30 | Panel: Exploring the complexities of mobile interconnection and termination
- Partnership between circuit-switched mobile operators and VoIP providers
- FMC and mobile interconnection pricing
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15.10 | Strategies for encouraging international data roaming usage
- Building compelling and user-friendly data roaming bundles
- Increasing international roaming allowances
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16.00 | Round table: Next generation mobile interconnect regulation
- Interconnect pricing for terminating on 2G vs 3G networks
- Operator and consumer benefits for technology cost-variation
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17.00 | End of stream A
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Day three - Thursday 25 September - Stream B Emerging markets
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09.20 | Chairmans opening remarks
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09.30 | Keynote address: Increasing exposure and gaining a significant presence in developing countries
- Determining the optimum expansion strategy
- Which countries valuations present attractive opportunities for telcos
- Balancing increased risk with superior management and technical expertise
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10.00 | Converging communications networks and the opportunities for FMC
- The potential of convergent networks to provide operators with ROI over the next 2-5 years
- Develop and maximise FMC service adoption in emerging markets
- Priming a targeted section of the existing subscriber base to ensure a successful launch
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10.30 | Transforming from traditional services to the provision of VAS in new markets
- Identifying the growth markets and services that can deliver scale
- Meeting the quality requirements and reliability of service
- Ensuring the right services are being offered at the right time of development
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11.00 | Morning coffee
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11.50 | Deployment of a Wireless Broadband network
- The real requirement for wireless data services
- Competition: the place of wireless broadband solutions for carriers, mobile operators and ISP
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12.20 | WiMAX as a market entrant technology: design, plan, deploy and optimising the network
- The impact of WiMAX as an alternative broadband technology
- Performance and network success in NLOS environments
- The relative cost of deliver integration and support services vs. wireline broadband
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12.50 | Developing mobile broadband services in emerging markets through LTE
- Identifying the key players in the market and the evolution of UMTS/HSPA
- Lessons learnt from previous HSPA deployments
- Subscription migration – forecasting future demand
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13.20 | Lunch
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14.30 | Providing growth through international expansion
- Growing your business as a 21st Century telecom operator
- Identifying the location and potential of tomorrow’s growth hotspots
- Becoming a global player through effective partnering strategies
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15.00 | Financing growth in emerging markets
- The financial challenges and implications of growth in emerging markets
- Conventional funding arrangements
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Workshop A - Monday 22 September – Advanced mobile backhaul
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| Rationale and benefits |
Mobile operators are faced with exceptional growth in high-bandwidth data services requiring upgrades to mobile backhaul networks. They are increasingly challenged with legacy backhaul architectures that are expensive, inflexible, inefficient and limited in scale.
Next generation access networks will only increase the need to upgrade bandwidth capabilities to support new, advanced multimedia applications and in the process the backhaul network will increasingly become a bottleneck. Coupled with $22.6 billion spent on backhaul in 2007, mobile operators are now seeking partners who are able to provide a strategy in support of the expansion plans.
Mobile backhaul represents one of the largest growth opportunities for network operators. The session will be invaluable in guiding you through mobile backhaul solutions that are flexible, scalable, and efficient and offer investment protection for a smooth migration to all IP next-generation mobile networks
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| Workshop agenda |
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09.30 | Market drivers & industry dynamics
- Raising demand for multimedia services:
- Capacity predictions in the move from TDM- based infrastructure to LTE and Mobile WiMAX
- The need to develop an IP backhaul network blueprint: the growth in Ethernet-based
- Cost-per-bit growth vs. the erosion in revenue per transported bit
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10.00 | Implementing near-term strategies
- The need to bridge the gap between the TDM and Ethernet worlds
- The logic of separating the data from the voice traffic
- Pseudowires: running TDM and IP traffic in its native form
- Hybrid networks: maintaining TDM whilst implementing a packet-based IP/Ethernet network
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10.30 | Refreshments and networking
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11.00 | Migrating from ATM and TDM backhaul
- An Ethernet and IP/MPLS-based solution
- Operating networks based on PBB-TE, Transport MPLS (T-MPLS) and MPLS.
- Creating a framework and technical specification for LTE and beyond
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11.30 | Challenges faced with new generation backhaul
- Ethernet network synchronisation: ensure QoS for real-time services
- Providing flexible support for multi-generation radio and multi-transport technologies
- Service assurance and manage SLAs in the mobile backhaul networks
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12.00 | Lunch
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13.00 | Case study: Delivering pseudowires
- Creating a fully working pseudowire technology
- Pseudowire benefits
- An evolving set of standards
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13.30 | Case study: Delivering hybrid networks
- Sending delay-sensitive traffic over T1/E1 lines
- Sending data over IP access networks
- Overcoming the shortcomings of such technologies
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14.00 | Wholesale fixed-line: Delivering NGN mobile backhaul
- Delivering cost efficient high--speed connectivity between base stations
- Scalable and reliable backhaul
- The reliability of T1/E1 leased line use for mobile backhaul
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14.30 | End of workshop
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Workshop B – Monday 22 September - Infrastructure Sharing and Outsourcing
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| Rationale and benefits |
Many operators are considering outsourcing and infrastructure sharing in order to improve efficiency and lower their network deployment costs. The process is encouraging competitors to become partners in order to lower their increasing capex investment and offload low revenue segments.
Outsourcing and infrastructure sharing were initially driven by cost, however, they also enable carriers to focus on developing new converged services that are currently being held back by structural weakness.
This session will focus the business drivers for both outsourcing and infrastructure sharing. The business case for both will be underlined allowing you to understand the value proposition and possible routes available in your attempt to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
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| Workshop agenda |
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09.30 | Market drivers & industry dynamics
- Outsourcing
- Organic and inorganic growth
- Cost control
- Enabling convergence
- Infrastructure sharing
- Pricing
- Efficiency
- Stimulating investment and growth
- Providing capabilities and capacity: the opportunity to be a provider
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10.00 | Implementing innovative infrastructure strategies
- Basic and passive infrastructure sharing
- Creating access to international capacity
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10.30 | Refreshments and networking
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11.00 | Application of alternative business models
- Outsourcing your network
- Delivering application services
- Customer value of different outsourcing models
- The age old question: Outsourcing vs. investment in infrastructure?
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11.30 | Regulator challenges faced with infrastructure sharing
- The need to cut costs in deploying NGN technologies
- Fostering and encouraging the sharing of network resources
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12.00 | Lunch
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13.00 | Case study: Developed market outsourcing
- Creating an audit to discover the feasibility of outsourcing
- Detailed planning and implementation
- Program management
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13.30 | 13:30 Case study: Emerging market network sharing
- Effective strategies to expand your footprint quickly to tackle promising opportunities
- Co-location shared facilities
- LLU
- The lessons recently learnt from the mobile site sharing
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14.00 | The changing role of the wholesale provider in the present climate
- Expanding international reach quickly in support of new customers
- Is now the right time to outsource?
- The business case for infrastructure sharing in light of size and financial capabilities
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14.30 | End of workshop
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