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Day One - Tuesday 19 August 2008
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9am | Chairman's welcome remarks
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9.15am | Opening Keynote: Establishing Asia Pacific as the global connectivity hub of the future
• Identifying market opportunities and trends in Asia Pacific 2008-2009
• Bridging the connectivity gap between developed and developing countries in Asia Pacific
• Strategies to connect smaller South East Asia countries to the world via submarine cables making access available at a lower cost
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| EXAMINING CURRENT GLOBAL CAPACITY DEMAND DRIVERS AND ISSUES |
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9.45am | Evaluating bandwidth and capacity utilisation across Asia Pacific 2008-2009
• The impact of content drivers (p2p multimedia sharing, gaming, gambling and adult content)
• The impact of demand drivers - the evolution of ethernet & carriers moving into the ethernet space
• Will these drivers radically change your exsisting business model? |
| | Mr Byron Clatterbuck, Senior Vice President, Global Transmission Services, Global Carrier Solutions, Tata Communications
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10.15am | Morning refreshments and networking
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10.45am | Panel discussion: Impact of increasing competition and the entrance of new players into the market
• The current shortage in the supply of submarine cables – short term issue or long term crisis?
• The emergence of the new players into the repeated systems “club” – supply saviours or market raiders
• How will these impact the traditional cable owners and suppliers? |
| | Tony Frisch, Senior Vice President of Nu-Wave NXT Product Line, Xtera Communications
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| BUILDING A WORLD CLASS NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE |
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11.30am | Case study South East Asia - Enhancing network connectivity in Thailand
• Identifying the market drivers and capacity demand in Thailand
• Building a world class network infrastructure
• Enhancing network connectivity in Thailand |
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12pm | Case study Micronesia – Enhancing network connectivity in Guam Islands
• Identifying the market drivers and capacity demand in Guam
• Building a world class network infrastructure
• Connecting Guam to the world via submarine cables |
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| SUBMARINE NETWORKS VS. TERRESTRIAL CABLES VS. SATELLITE |
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12.30pm | Panel discussion: Submarine cable, terrestrial network or satellite – which model is right for your business?
• Understanding your network coverage needs
• Evaluating the costs over time issues of satellite vs submarine cable
• Application in real-life examples |
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1pm | Networking lunch
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2pm | Enhancing network coverage through complementing terrestrial networks with submarine networks
• Forcasting the traffic of terrestrial networks
• The development, utilization and availability of terrestrial networks - user perspective
• How network coverage can be enhanced through complementing terrestrial networks with submarine networks |
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| CABLE RESILIENCE, RELIABILITY AND ROUTING ISSUES |
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2.30pm | Panel discussion: Restoration options, how to manage network outages?
• Identifying the various restoration options during a network outage
• Evaluating the cost effectiveness of each option
• TPE/AAG are they effectively adding new routing options |
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3.15pm | Speed networking sponsored by Rostelecom
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3.40pm | Afternoon refreshments and networking
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4pm | Special session: Identifying the feasibility of creating another South East Asia access route to Europe and North Asia via Thailand
• What are the government policies of building a landing station in Thailand?
• Examining the feasibility of connecting via Thailand as a submarine cable landing station
• Where in Thailand would be the ideal location?
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| USER GENERATED CONTENT SEGMENT |
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4.45pm | Interactive Polling – Your opinion counts!
In this segment, participants will have an opportunity to express their views on a couple of issues facing the submarine cable industry at the moment. They will be asked a series of questions and are asked to answer either ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ with the place cards in front of them.
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4.50pm | Round Table Discussion – Have your say! Be heard!
In this segment, participants are divided into groups and seated in ‘round table’ fashion. They will be asked to discuss the following topic: Where is the submarine cable industry heading in the next 3 years? Each table shall appoint a scribe to take notes and a presenter who shall read out the views of the group to the rest of the audience.
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5.30pm | Close of conference day one
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5.35pm | Networking cocktail sponsored by Nexans
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Day Two - Wednesday 20 August 2008
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9am | Chairman welcome remarks
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9.15am | Panel discussion: An overview of the submarine cable industry in the next 3 years
• Where is the submarine networks industry heading in the next 3 years?
• Is submarine cable capacity under-utilized or over provided in Asia Pacific?
• Are suppliers setting the new trends in the market? |
| | Rabindra Paramothayan, Director Submarine Cable Investments & Strategy (Asia), Submarine Cable Investments & Strategy (Asia), Cable & Wireless Ravindran Mahalingam, General Manager, International Business Division, Hutchison Global Communications Limited Moderator: Mr Dan Hughes, Sales & Marketing Director, Apollo Submarine Cable System
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| TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION SHOWCASE |
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10am | Bandwidth virtualisation with digital optical networks enables resilient and differentiated services for Submarine Networks
• Utilizing a common optical plattform to enable operators to offer a wide varierty of services
• Digital protection and mesh restoration for highly resilient networks that can self-heal against multiple failures
• 40 Gb/s service transport over repeatered and unrepeatered submarine links |
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10.30am | Morning refreshment and networking
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11am | Subsea Fiber Optic Systems
• Fiber optic component and links – cost effective and reliable techniques for control and monitoring of offshore oil and gas fields
• Identifying the applications of Subsea Fiber Optic Systems
• Nexans cabling systems |
| | Dr Inge Vintermyr, Technical Manager, Telecom, Building & Telecoms Cables Division, Nexans
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11.30am | Programmable global mesh optical networks
• Programmable infrastructure for service delivery & monetizing network capacity
• Mesh networking across terrestrial and submarine networks on a global scale
• Deterministic delivery of Global Ethernet services |
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| CABLE PROJECTS UPDATES |
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12pm | DANICE – Iceland to Denmark
The new submarine cable will ensure safe transportation of data to and from the country and will be a welcomed addition to the Farice 1 submarine cable. With the two cables, which will be run as a unified system, a wireless connection between cables can be guaranteed, in the case of breakdown.
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12.30pm | American Samoa - Hawaii, Tahiti - Hawaii
“Even small island communities can now aspire to submarine cables. Two Pacific countries are now getting submarine cables using different techniques. Others may follow. Thin route technology and with novel commercial arrangements can open opportunities for those who never thought they could justify a cable.” |
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1pm | Networking lunch
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2pm | Rostelecom – Europe to Japan, China via Russia
A new fiber-optic line between the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk and Heihe in the Heilongjiang province of China will allow high-speed terrestrial cross-border link. It was constructed using DWDM equipment, with an initial throughput capacity of 2.5 Gbps and to be further expanded up to 400 Gbps |
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2.30pm | Matrix Networks - Indonesia to Singapore
The 1,000-km subsea Matrix Cable System will provide robust, high-bandwidth connectivity to the currently underserved, growing Indonesian market. The design also facilitates a future connection to Perth, Australia |
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3pm | Ochre Services - Perth to Singapore
Ochre Services is leading a $150 million fibre cable planned to link Perth with Jakarta and Singapore and also to link up oil and gas facilities in the Northwest shelf of Western Australia. |
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3.30pm | Afternoon refreshments and networking
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4pm | PIPE NETWORKS- Project Runway- Sydney to Guam
An A$200m new optical fibre linking Sydney to Guam will increase the amount of international bandwidth available to Australian ISPs and could significantly reduce the cost of international data carriage to the USA. |
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4.30pm | Tata Communications (Former VSNL) - Singapore to Japan
A US$200 million undersea communications cable system linking Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, The Philippines, and potentially Vietnam will be built to provide 3.8T bits of capacity to the countries served. It will also provide the first direct fiber link between Singapore and Japan. |
| | Mr Simon Cooper, Senior Director, Global Submarine Cable Strategy & Projects, Tata Communications
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5pm | NTT Communications: Japan as an Asian Submarine Cable Hub
• Project updates: HSCS and TPE
• Submarine cable trend and requirement
• Asian Cable Hub |
| | Mr Uchida Takanori, Vice President, Global Network Department, Global Services Business Division, NTT Communications Corporation
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5.30pm | Close of conference, followed by networking dinner at Zambuca
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