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Conference day one - Tuesday 9 September
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8.45am | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| DELIVERING A SELF MANAGED FEMTO PLUG AND PLAY SOLUTION |
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9am | Keynote: An overview of the in-building, in-house technology market
- The technologies available in the market today
- How do femtocells fit into this field and how is it differentiating itself from the rest?
- Establishing criteria on which to compare the options for indoor coverage
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9.30am | Keynote: The different networks and layers involved in delivering the first commercial rollouts
- Understanding the differences between the various layers and how they impact on each other
- When and where are they applicable?
- What of interconnection, hand-over and co-existence? Defining the femtocell ecosystem: Is the value chain due for consolidation
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10am | Keynote: Analysing the cost of delivering full 3G coverage – higher capacity, lower costs
- Major revenue and cost elements of an MNO’s business case for femtocells
- 3G macrocell network costs and the savings to be had
- Why this is considered such a great opportunity within the market?
- Assessing the benefits and drawbacks of the diverse In-Building capacity universe
- Scalability to support millions of end points efficiently
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| | Warren Buckley, Group Director Mobility & Director Portfolio Convergence, BT Group
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10.30am | Morning coffee
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| INFRASTRUCTURE AND INTEGRATION INTO THE BUSINESS MODEL |
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11.20am | Changing the game: How mobile operators can benefit from a new generation of femto-enabled applications
- Realising affordable and dependable mobile broadband at home – What will be done with this new freedom?
- The practical and commercial aspects of connecting mobile operators, internet application developers and content providers
- The business case for operators introducing femto-enabled applications to customers
- Working femto-enabled applications – residential and within the enterprise
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11.50am | The femtocell case from an integrated operators view
- Understanding potential benefits of femtocells in a mobile centric home-zone play
- Discussing differences to bundling DSL, fixed voice and mobile
- Comparison with alternative plays
- Dual-mode handset services
- Network sharing
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12.20pm | Networking lunch
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2pm | Exploring effective go-to-market strategies
- Femtocell business models and deployment strategies
- Key network and management technology enablers
- What revenues can be accrued from value added services and what is the impact on the business case?
- What are the key considerations for launching a femtocell solution in terms of pitfalls and opportunities?
- What is the optimum blend of characteristics to ensure consumer uptake and revenue accrual?
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| FINANCE AND INVESTMENT |
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2.30pm | Panel discussion: Venture capital panel in emerging technology
- Past VC investments in telecoms for service providers and vendors what went right?
- What lessons can be learnt from the mistakes that were made?
- Current state of VC market and the segments that attract funding
- Current trend in valuations and the key criteria driving valuations for both investments and exits
- What type of exit can one expect for communications investors?
- The range of exits the market is producing and the returns investors achieving
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3.20pm | Speed networking
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4pm | Afternoon tea
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| FEMTOCELLS AND THE CONSUMER / CREATING A UNIQUE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE |
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4.30pm | Panel discussion: Scrutinising the pricing, packaging and marketing of femtocell solutions
- The femtocell ‘box’ – understanding the pricing and marketing challenges
- The implications of femtocells on network costs for different customer segments
- Different options for deployment scenarios:
Standalone femtocell products versus integrated set-top boxes
Home access points – open or restricted?
Will mobile operators be able to offer femtocells that plug into any ISP’s set-top box?
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| | Dr Coskun Sahin, Research and Development / Applied Research and Technologies Manager, Turkcell
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5.15pm | Close of day one
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5.30pm | Cocktail Party
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Conference day two - Wednesday 10 September
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8.45am | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| CURRENT AND FUTURE ECONOMICS / TECHNOLOGY DYNAMICS |
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9am | Keynote: Future proofing your in-building solution – Ensuring the scalability of your solution for the long term evolution of mobile technologies and capacity requirements
- Exploring current trends and assessing how mobile networks are likely to evolve
- Analysing how broadband wireless access technologies may impact on future network development
- Investing in scalable in-building solutions
- Assessing the impact future mobile applications and services will have on your in-building solution
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| | Pierre Marin, Director Networks Carriers and Information Technology, France Telecom
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9.30am | Keynote: Femtocells, LTE and WiMAX– who will bring it home and why?
- The pros and cons of these technologies
- But when it comes to the crunch – bettering the coverage indoors – which is superior?
- Femtocells, Wifi and WiMAX: complimentary, alternative or competitive?
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| | Matts Sporre, Head of Project and Technology Strategies, TeliaSonera
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10am | Keynote: Designing and deploying cost efficient in-building solutions to meet the coverage and capacity demands of your subscribers and network
- Examining the evolving coverage and capacity challenges involved in deploying optimal in-building solutions for residential, corporate and commercial sites
- Determining which in-building solution to deploy to guarantee uniform in-building coverage taking into account:
- capacity of the base stations
- Future capacity and coverage needs
- Quality of the signal
- Emerging technologies (Femtocells, WiMAX)
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10.30am | Morning refreshments
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11.50am | U-turn – debate: In the end, who’s going to pay for it all?
- The role of regulation in setting the price
- What are currently the different perspectives and opinions on this very pressing matter?Preparing the network to be aligned with femtocell services
- What will the consumer ultimately pay for?
This is the part of the congress where the content of the session is created and managed by the participants. Tackling the issues head-on it will allow the collective wisdom of the audience to try and solve the biggest question mark surrounding the technology.
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1.20pm | Networking lunch
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2.50pm | Reducing backhaul – minor added benefit or major consideration?
- Assessing the importance and impact of backhaul reduction
- Generating savings from lower backhaul and energy costs
- Creating the opportunity for network capacity enhancements
- Backhauling via a consumer-funded IP connection – what are the challenges?
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| COMPETITION AND STANDARDS STATUS |
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3.20pm | Exploring UMA and the potential of making femtocells autonomous
- UMA and femtocell deployment
- UMA - the proven device-to-core network connectivity Standard
- Addressing the challenges of mobile service delivery over IP
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3.50pm | Afternoon Tea
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4.20pm | Functioning within multiple standards and the IP core
- Understanding the necessity for femtocells to operate within the confines of numerous standards: UMTS, WiMAX, CDMA, GSM, LTE
- SIP-based femtocell architecture options: leveraging a SIP based VoIP network for cost-effective delivery, while inter-working with a cellular core to extend legacy circuit switched services
- Embracing the protocols of an all-IP network and the potential of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
- The incorporation of HSxPA upgrades into base station design
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| | John Ward, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
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4.50pm | Close of conference
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Pre-conference workshop - Monday 8th September
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9am | Registration and coffee
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9.30am | Introduction to femtocells
- Planning, implementing and optimizing your In-Building coverage
- The commercial and technical aspects
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10am | The value proposition
- Superior coverage
- Family in-home calling plans
- Higher performance data services
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10.30am | Morning refreshments
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11am | The challenges
- IP Backhaul requirements
- Managing QoS delivery
- Authentication & encryption
- Security & firewalls
- Managing millions of femtocell devices
- User access control
- Integration into OSS/BSS
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12pm | Lunch
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1pm | Evolution to a common network
- Overview of transport requirements in Radio Access Networks
- Suitability of existing RAN Backhaul when introducing femtocells
- RAN Backhaul evolution strategies
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2.30pm | Exploring the possibilities
- Backhaul costs for operators
- Comparing various methods of managing the mobile backhaul – what is possible with femtocells
- Examining urban and rural areas. Comparing the backhaul solution for different environments.
- The impact on the various operators involved
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3.30pm | Close of Workshop
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Simon Saunders
Tamer El Mahdy
Pascal Koster
Eliezer Ogman
